An Indiana State Police spokesman says a 14-year-old boy who exchanged gunfire with officers at an eastern Indiana middle school before taking his own life wasn't a current student at the school.

Thirty-nine students were on the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation bus when the crash occurred near Argos.

Indiana’s bar passage rate ticked up very slightly this year, to 61 percent. But it had gotten worse six consecutive years before that.