Best Middle Schools in Indiana

The top 50 middle schools (grades 6-8) in Indiana, ranked by enrollment from NCES data with EDFacts proficiency rates where available. Average proficiency across this list is 65%.

#	School	City	Enrollment	Proficiency
1	Indiana Digital Elementary	Modoc, IN	2,120	63%
2	Franklin Central Junior High	Indianapolis, IN	1,711	47%
3	Highland Hills Middle School	Georgetown, IN	1,652	59%
4	Clay Middle School	Carmel, IN	1,423	73%
5	Creekside Middle School	Carmel, IN	1,349	62%
6	Brownsburg East Middle School	Brownsburg, IN	1,340	63%
7	Zionsville Middle School	Zionsville, IN	1,335	71%
8	Hamilton Se Int and Jr High Sch	Fishers, IN	1,269	66%
9	Robert Taft Middle School	Crown Point, IN	1,091	67%
10	Zionsville West Middle School	Whitestown, IN	1,075	62%
11	Hal E Clark Middle School	Saint John, IN	1,069	67%
12	Fall Creek Junior High	Fishers, IN	1,002	65%
13	North Junior High School	Evansville, IN	929	62%
14	Kahler Middle School	Dyer, IN	922	64%
15	Southside Elementary School	Columbus, IN	905	72%
16	Riverside Intermediate School	Fishers, IN	866	70%
17	Summit Middle School	Fort Wayne, IN	866	71%
18	Discovery Middle School	Granger, IN	848	63%
19	Benjamin Franklin Middle School	Valparaiso, IN	821	67%
20	Danville Middle School	Danville, IN	805	62%
21	Castle North Middle School	Newburgh, IN	770	63%
22	Lowell Middle School	Lowell, IN	742	63%
23	Jasper Middle School	Jasper, IN	687	63%
24	Cloverdale Distance Learning Academy	Cloverdale, IN	684	77%
25	Northwestern Elementary School	Kokomo, IN	677	62%
26	Hanover Central Middle School	Cedar Lake, IN	650	67%
27	Tri-North Middle School	Bloomington, IN	574	62%
28	Oak Hill Elementary	Evansville, IN	547	63%
29	Rousseau McClellan School 91	Indianapolis, IN	542	62%
30	Edgewood Middle School	Warsaw, IN	537	61%
31	Scott Elementary School	Evansville, IN	528	67%
32	Westville Elementary School	Westville, IN	517	63%
33	Indian Creek Middle School	Trafalgar, IN	486	63%
34	Childs Elementary School	Bloomington, IN	483	74%
35	Eisenhower Elementary School	Warsaw, IN	478	66%
36	Greendale Middle School	Lawrenceburg, IN	473	63%
37	Center for Inquiry School 84	Indianapolis, IN	469	62%
38	Maxwell Intermediate School	Maxwell, IN	465	63%
39	Benton Elementary School	Goshen, IN	453	63%
40	Center For Inquiry School 2	Indianapolis, IN	444	67%
41	Haubstadt Community School	Haubstadt, IN	394	64%
42	Cascade Middle School	Clayton, IN	360	64%
43	Liberty Intermediate School	Chesterton, IN	351	64%
44	Boone Grove Middle School	Boone Grove, IN	323	63%
45	Adams Central Middle School	Monroe, IN	319	65%
46	Riverdale Elementary School	Saint Joe, IN	293	64%
47	Nancy Hanks Elementary School	Ferdinand, IN	271	66%
48	Oak Hill Junior High School	Converse, IN	269	62%
49	Eastern Hancock Middle School	Charlottesville, IN	268	65%
50	Unionville Elementary School	Unionville, IN	242	64%

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best middle school in Indiana?

The largest middle school in Indiana is Indiana Digital Elementary in Modoc with 2,120 students and a 63% proficiency rate. Rankings are based on NCES Common Core of Data enrollment and EDFacts proficiency results.

How many middle schools are in Indiana?

This page shows the top 50 middle schools (grades 6-8) in Indiana by enrollment. Browse the full state directory to see all schools.

What does the proficiency rate measure?

Proficiency rate is the percentage of students meeting grade-level standards on combined math and reading assessments, as reported by EDFacts. Data is district-level and applied to each school in the district.

Where does this data come from?

Enrollment and school characteristics come from the NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results. Both are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.

For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.

Sources: NCES Common Core of Data, EDFacts

Last updated: June 2026

Schools are ranked by enrollment within the state. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results, district-level figures applied to each school in the district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.