Milan High School

Milan High School is one of the very small senior highs in Milan, Indiana, operated by Milan Community Schools, with 315 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 816 students each, so Milan High School sits 61% below that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Milan Community Schools (1,095 students total), Milan High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Milan High School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 46% of students at Milan High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ripley County) logs that median household earnings sit near $70,573, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Ripley County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students), of which Milan High School is one.

Milan Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Milan High School.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Milan High School's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 315). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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