Indianola, NE schools
Indianola’s public schools score above Nebraska’s averages: 52% of students are proficient in reading against 48.2% statewide, and 75% of high schoolers graduate on time against 86%. Kids attend Southwest Elementary-Indianola through grade 5, then Southwest Middle School and Southwest Jr./Sr. High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Indianola’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Indianola’s kids attend trail 52% of Nebraska’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Nebraska’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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska 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 Indianola kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Above the state in reading
75% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Indianola
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Indianola
There’s no college in Indianola, but 1 college is within 30 miles. The closest is Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis, 28.1 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Indianola. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 1 school in Indianola
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Indianola kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Indianola’s district that are located in Bartley.