A number of area schools have been named Four-Star School Honorees for the 2015-16 school year by the Indiana Department of Education. They include:

St. Bartholomew School – Columbus
Trinity Lutheran High School – Seymour
North Decatur Elementary School – Greensburg
Center Grove Middle School Central – Greenwood
Maple Grove Elementary School – Bargersville
Clark Pleasant Middle School – Greenwood
Greenwood Community High School – Greenwood
Westwood Elementary School – Greenwood
Binford Elementary School – Bloomington
Bloomington High School South – Bloomington
Childs Elementary School – Bloomington
Lora L Batchelor Middle School – Bloomington
The Acad of Sci & Entrepreneurship – Bloomington
The Bloomington Project School – Bloomington

The Indiana Department of Education says that criteria to be included on this list are:

A school must have received an “A” grade for the 2015-16 school year
Grade 3-8: 85% of all students passing English/Language Arts ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
Grade 3-8: 85% of all students passing Math ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
Grade 3-8: 80% of all ethnic subgroups passing English/Language Arts ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
Grade 3-8: 80% of all ethnic subgroups passing Math ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
Grade 10: 55% of all students passing English/Language Arts ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
Grade 10: 35% of all students passing Math ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
Grade 10: 50% of all ethnic subgroups passing English/Language Arts ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
Grade 10: 30% of all ethnic subgroups passing Math ISTEP+ (minimum of 10 students);
2016 Graduation rate of all students at least 97.5% (minimum of 10 students);
2016 Graduation rate of all ethnic students at least 90% (minimum of 10 students)