The top reported proficiency rate is 84% in Social studies. The lowest is 39% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Centerville-abington Jr High Sch
Centerville-Abington Jr High Sch serves seventh and eighth graders in the Centerville-Abington Community Schools district, a single regular public school in Wayne County, Indiana, that spans just those two grade levels. The school is located in Centerville, a small town along the Old National Road (US 40) that bills itself as a community to live, work, and raise a family, known regionally for its historic brick archways and antique shops. The town’s civic institutions, including the public library housed in the old county courthouse and the high school, are integrated into the central corridor rather than set apart on a campus. Home values in the area are below the national median, and the estimated monthly mortgage cost runs modestly above local rents, a dynamic that may favor renting for some households.
The student body is small, with an enrollment that makes for a scale where individual students are not easily lost. The composition is overwhelmingly white, with a very small share of Hispanic students and a similarly small share of students who identify as two or more races; Asian students make up a tiny fraction, and no Black or Native American students are present in the reported count. About half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate that signals a meaningful share of families with lower household incomes. Data on students with IEPs and English learners were not available in the reported records, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about special education and language support.
On the state’s ILEARN assessments, which Indiana administers to students in third through eighth grade, Centerville-Abington Jr High produces results that place it above the midpoint among Wayne County’s districts, in the top quartile for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. In math, a bit over two out of five students met the proficiency bar. In English language arts, the share was slightly lower, with roughly two out of five students scoring proficient. Participation rates on both tests were very high, meaning the results reflect nearly the entire student body, not a selected subset. The school also has a social studies score from an older assessment year, from a different test, which showed a high proficiency rate; that data is from several years ago and from a different testing regime, so it offers limited insight into current performance.
Because the school serves only grades seven and eight, it does not have a graduation rate, and chronic absenteeism data were not available in the reported records. A parent interested in how students fare after eighth grade would need to look at the high school that feeds from this junior high to see the full academic trajectory.
No recent district-level changes, such as a referendum, a property-tax shift, or a major curriculum overhaul, were identified in publicly reported sources, so the context a family walks into is stable in that respect. The school’s program offerings were not detailed in the available data; a parent researching options for their child should check directly with the school for information on any elective sequences, band, or extracurriculars at this junior high level.
Centerville-Abington Jr High Sch fits a family looking for a small, contained middle-school environment in a quiet town with lower housing costs than many parts of Indiana. The academic results are solid relative to other districts in the county, with room for improvement in both math and English language arts. The limited demographic diversity and the absence of reported data on special populations are characteristics a parent may want to explore further in conversation with the school.
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