Schools · Reserve

Reserve, IN schools

Reserve’s public schools score well below Indiana’s averages: 36% of students are proficient in reading against 42.6% statewide, and 82% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.9%. Kids attend Montezuma Elementary School through grade 6, then Riverton Parke Jr-Sr High School.

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

CSchool Grade

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Reserve’s School Grade: C

The public schools Reserve’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 69% of Indiana’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

B-Test scoresDGraduation

Indiana school districts we grade (390)Better than 31%

Lower resultsHigher results

Indiana towns with similar household incomes (615)Better than 12%

Towns in Parke County (13)Better than 0%

High confidence. Built on 554 tested students and a graduating class of 72; 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 Reserve kids go to school

Grades PK–6

B-Montezuma Elementary School 213 students · Montezuma Southwest Parke Community School Corporation

Grades 7–12

CRiverton Parke Jr-Sr High School 471 students · Montezuma Southwest Parke Community School Corporation

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

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Southwest Parke Community School Corporation)36%

State average 42.6%

Math (grades PK–12, Southwest Parke Community School Corporation)34%

State average 35.8%

Graduation · class of 2020

82% graduate on time

Graduation rate

82%

IN: 90.9%

Graduating class

students

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

Districts

The district serving Reserve

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Southwest Parke Community School CorporationGrades PK–12 · 3 schools · 1,002 students

$13,020 per studentIN $13,688C

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

Within reach

Colleges near Reserve

There’s no college in Reserve, but 7 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Sugar Creek, 21.9 miles away.

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Sugar Creek21.9 mi904 students Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Terre Haute22.6 mi2,245 students Indiana State UniversityUniversity or college · Public · Terre Haute23.9 mi5,969 students Danville Area Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Danville25.7 mi1,721 students Wabash CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Crawfordsville27.7 mi844 students DePauw UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Greencastle27.8 mi1,819 students

Lakeview College of NursingUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Danville28 mi81 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Reserve. 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.

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