Northpoint Elementary School in Granger earned the No. 2 spot among Indiana's ranked public elementary schools, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2027 Best Elementary Schools rankings, released Oct. 20.
Fellow Granger school Prairie Vista Elementary, also in the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp., ranked No. 3. Both schools placed in the top 1% of approximately 1,020 public elementary schools ranked statewide.
The schools ranked first and second, respectively, in the previous edition. Northpoint and Prairie Vista each moved down one position in the 2027 rankings.
The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. confirmed the new rankings and reported that five of its elementary schools placed among Indiana's top 10%.
Northpoint, at 50800 Cherry Road, serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Prairie Vista, at 15400 Brick Road, also serves kindergarten through fifth grade.
The district's spring 2026 assessment results provide more recent context for the schools' performance.
Northpoint and Prairie Vista ranked among Indiana's top 10 public schools for the percentage of students passing both the English language arts and math portions of the Indiana Learning Evaluation and Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN) test, according to the district.
In the 2026 Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD) assessment, Prairie Vista recorded a 98.8% passing rate.
Northpoint recorded a 96.9% passing rate. Both exceeded the statewide rate of 88.7%.
Across the district, students outperformed the state average by 21.5 percentage points in English language arts and 18.2 percentage points in math on the spring 2026 ILEARN assessments.
The U.S. News rankings cover about 46,000 public elementary schools nationally. The organization evaluates schools on four equally weighted factors: math proficiency, math performance, reading proficiency and reading performance.
The 2027 edition incorporates data collected from state education agencies, including assessment results from earlier school years.
Other Penn-Harris-Madison elementary schools also placed highly in the 2027 rankings. Horizon Elementary ranked No. 36, Mary Frank Elementary ranked No. 38 and Bittersweet Elementary ranked No. 94.
The district operates 11 elementary schools. All 11 appear in the statewide U.S. News rankings.
