Summary:
Carmel High School is the only high school serving Carmel Clay Schools in Indiana, educating students in grades 9–12 at 520 E Main St, Carmel, IN 46032, with an enrollment of 5,239 students. Because it is the district's sole high school, its graduation and test-score figures are identical to the district's high-school figures. The district itself ranks 5th of 374 in Indiana, at the 99th percentile with 5 stars.
Carmel High School has ranked in the top 1% of Indiana high schools for three straight years — 4th of 415 in 2025–26, 4th of 429 in 2024–25, and 5th of 432 in 2023–24 — indicating stable, elite performance rather than a one-year spike. Graduation is near universal at 99.1%, which is 9.4 percentage points above the state's 89.7%. SAT proficiency is far above state norms: in 2025–26, 83.1% of students were proficient in Evidence-based Reading and Writing versus 51.9% statewide, and Math proficiency was 63.82% versus 25.6% statewide, roughly 2.5 times the state rate. ILEARN Biology proficiency was 79.13% in 2024–25 against 45.6% statewide.
Year-over-year changes are small and mixed: EBRW slipped from 85.46% to 83.1%, Math rose from 63.18% to 63.82%, and Biology moved from 79.13% to 78.42%. Math is the lowest of the three subjects locally but shows the largest gap over the state. Chronic absenteeism is 11.5%, below the state's 16.7% but above the district's 6.4%, which may reflect a high-school-level pattern. The school also reports a free/reduced lunch rate of 13.34%, per-student spending of $11,447 in 2023–24, and a 16.7:1 student-teacher ratio; the dataset provides no state comparisons for those three measures.
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