Schools · Lake Santee

Lake Santee, IN schools

Lake Santee’s public schools score well above Indiana’s averages: 48% of students are proficient in reading against 42.6% statewide, and 97% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.9%. Kids attend North Decatur Elementary School or South Decatur Elementary School through grade 6, then North Decatur Jr-Sr High School or South Decatur Jr-Sr High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Lake Santee’s School Grade: A-

The public schools Lake Santee’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 75% of Indiana’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

B+Test scoresBGraduation
Indiana school districts we grade (390)Better than 75%
Lower resultsHigher results
Indiana towns with similar household incomes (91)Better than 48%
High confidence. Built on 966 tested students and a graduating class of 166; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Indiana’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Indiana only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Indiana with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Lake Santee kids go to school

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well above the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Decatur County Community)48%
State average 42.6%
Math (grades PK–12, Decatur County Community)39%
State average 35.8%
Graduation · class of 2020

97% graduate on time

Graduation rate
97%
IN: 90.9%
Graduating class
166
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Lake Santee

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Lake Santee

There’s no college within 30 miles of Lake Santee. The closest is Miami University-Oxford in Oxford, OH, 31.5 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Lake Santee. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

We don’t have any schools located in Lake Santee yet.

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