Summary:
Zip code 62863 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 1,382 students in Wabash CUSD 348. Achievement results vary by grade and subject, but the most pressing concern is math at Mt Carmel Junior High School: its all-grades proficiency is 16%, 24 percentage points below the state’s 40%.
Mt Carmel Grade School has the clearest high-performing grade-level result: fourth graders are 12 points above the state in math (54% versus 42%) and 7 points above in ELA (63% versus 56%). Its all-grades results are closer to state levels: math is 41% versus 40%, while ELA is 54% versus 56%. By comparison, the junior high’s all-grades math is far behind, although its ELA is closer to the state (54% versus 56%). Mount Carmel High School is also below state results in all three 11th-grade ACT subjects, including ELA at 34% versus 50%. Achievement data do not allow a fair ranking of all four schools: Mt Carmel Elementary School has no test scores in the supplied data, and the junior high’s eighth-grade math result is state-suppressed.
Recent trends are mixed, but the high school has lost the most ground: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, its ACT scores fell 15 points in ELA, 11 in math and 21 in science; SchoolDigger’s ranking also dropped from the 63rd to the 19th percentile. The junior high’s all-grades IAR math improved 6 points, but remains 24 points below the state; its SchoolDigger ranking rose from the 20th to the 29th percentile. The grade school’s SchoolDigger ranking moved from the 52nd to the 43rd percentile. As context, the reported student-teacher ratios range from 6.0 at the junior high to 48.3 at the grade school. All four schools report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25; the share ranges from 48% at the high school to 61% at the grade school. These measures describe the schools and do not explain their test results.
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