Summary:
The Anderson Community School Corp district in Indiana has only one high school, Anderson High School, which serves grades 9-12. The school faces significant challenges, with consistently low academic performance, high poverty and absenteeism rates, and potential resource allocation concerns.
Anderson High School has consistently ranked in the bottom quarter of Indiana high schools, with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger. The school's proficiency rates on standardized tests are significantly lower than the state averages, with only 28.65% of 11th-graders proficient or better in SAT/Evidence-based Reading and Writing, and just 7.84% proficient or better in SAT/Mathematics. The school's four-year graduation rate is 84.2%, and its chronic absenteeism rate is a concerning 45.5%.
Socioeconomic factors also present challenges for the school, with 76.2% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school's per-student spending of $13,085 is relatively high, raising questions about the effective allocation of resources and the need to evaluate the school's educational strategies and interventions. Without additional data on other high schools in the district or the surrounding region, it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons and identify relative strengths or weaknesses of Anderson High School.
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