Prairie, IN schools
Prairie’s public schools score well above Indiana’s averages: 51% of students are proficient in reading against 42.6% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.9%. Kids attend Frontier Elementary through grade 6, then Frontier Jr-Sr High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Prairie’s School Grade: A
The public schools Prairie’s kids attend outperform 91% of Indiana’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Indiana’s state tests, each against the state average. 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.
- 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.
Where Prairie kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
95% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Prairie
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Prairie
There’s no college in Prairie, but 2 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Purdue University Global in West Lafayette, 10.8 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Prairie. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 1 school in Prairie
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Prairie kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Prairie’s district that are located in Chalmers.