For the third year in a row, Richmond Community Schools is celebrating outstanding growth in its 2026 Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) results.

Districtwide reading proficiency increased from 70% in 2024 to 80.2% in 2025 to 86.4% in 2026, an improvement of 6.2 percentage points from last year. Of the district’s 338 third-grade students, 292 demonstrated reading proficiency this year.

Every RCS elementary school maintained or improved its proficiency rate, with Crestdale, Starr and Vaile elementary schools achieving especially significant gains.