Summary:
ZIP code 46929 in Flora, Indiana has exactly one public middle school: Carroll Junior High School, which serves grades 7 and 8 with 143 students and belongs to Carroll Consolidated School Corp — so local families have no second middle school in the area to compare it against.
The school's strongest asset is attendance. Its chronic absenteeism rate is 4.7%, less than half the district's 10.9% and roughly one-quarter of the state's 16.7%, meaning nearly every student attends regularly. Class sizes are small as well, with a 10.7-to-1 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $10,039. Achievement, however, trails well behind the state. In 2025–2026, 7th grade English Language Arts was 23.86% proficient against a 41.7% state figure, 8th grade ELA was 21.74% against 44.0%, 7th grade math was 28.41% against 35.9%, and 8th grade math was 26.09% against 34.2%.
That gap widened sharply this year. Across all grades, ELA fell from 33.81% to 22.93% proficient and math from 38.13% to 27.39% — declines of about 11 points in each subject, roughly double the district's own drop. The school's state ranking slid from the 58th percentile (3 stars) in 2024–2025 to the 31st percentile (2 stars) in 2025–2026, following two prior years of stability at the 56th and 58th percentiles. The school that once stood above its district now sits below it. Because each grade holds only about 71–72 students, a handful of students changing proficiency levels can shift these percentages, but the drop appears in both subjects and both grades. The figure to watch most closely is 8th grade ELA: at 21.74% proficient, it is 22.3 points below the state and the lowest value in the data.
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