Original Research by School Decision on Boonville High School
Boonville High School serves as the sole public high school within Boonville, a small city that functions as the county seat of Warrick County. The school sits at 300 North 1st Street, embedded in a compact, low-density town built around a historic public square that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The student body, close to nine hundred students in grades nine through twelve, draws from a community where the built environment is a mix of residential neighborhoods, local businesses around the square, and county government offices. Housing values in the area sit below the national median, and the estimated monthly mortgage payment, assuming a conventional down payment, would run roughly in line with the local rent-to-income ratio, suggesting a market that is accessible relative to many parts of the country.
The student population is overwhelmingly white, with a modest share of Hispanic students and small numbers of Asian, Black, and multiracial students. Just under half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that places the school within a middle range of economic need for a public high school. The school operates as a regular public school within the Warrick County School Corporation, and the district itself did not publicly report any major recent changes such as referendums, curriculum overhauls, or boundary shifts, so parents should expect continuity in governance rather than a system undergoing disruption.
State testing data was not available for this school. Without proficiency rates or a multi-year academic trend line, it is not possible to characterize the school’s academic performance relative to other Indiana high schools. This absence may reflect data suppression or a reporting gap at the state level; a parent may want to ask the school or district directly for its most recent assessment results and how they compare to state averages.
The school environment and access section contained no information on staffing ratios, course access, discipline rates, or attendance patterns. There were no data on the number of students with disabilities or English learners, nor any record of chronic absenteeism. The graduation rate was also missing. These are significant gaps for a high school where parents would typically want to know the rate at which students complete on time, the availability of Advanced Placement or dual-credit courses, and the climate for student behavior. A family considering this school should request this information from the administration.
The comparison fact-set that would place Boonville High School against other high schools in Warrick County could not be computed because proficiency and graduation data were missing. The county itself contains only a small number of districts, so the peer set is narrow, but without the underlying metrics no position can be drawn.
Boonville itself is a place where civic life concentrates around the courthouse square, with a public library, a museum, a small airport, and a transit connection to Evansville. Growth is described by the city as steady, and the housing market shows values that have risen at a pace above the national average over the past year, though from a lower base. The school’s enrollment is large enough to offer a full high school experience with grade-level cohorts of roughly two hundred students each. But the lack of published academic, behavioral, and graduation data means that a parent cannot assess the school’s outcomes from publicly available sources alone. This school may fit a family that values a traditional county-seat setting and is willing to do direct outreach to the school for the details that are not on the page.
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