Muda69 Posted January 9 Posted January 9 The enrollment gap between Clinton Central and Clinton Prairie just keeps growing, where they used to always be very close. Could be Prairie just siphoning off more and more students from Frankfort due to their geographic proximity. A consolidation of the two high schools just make more and more sense. Quote
Coach Nowlin Posted January 9 Posted January 9 13 minutes ago, Muda69 said: The enrollment gap between Clinton Central and Clinton Prairie just keeps growing, where they used to always be very close. Could be Prairie just siphoning off more and more students from Frankfort due to their geographic proximity. A consolidation of the two high schools just make more and more sense. Wasn't there some legislation ongoing right now , I think @Irishman seems to be one who follows closely but forcing schools to consolidate?? Quote
Gatorguy Posted January 9 Posted January 9 2 hours ago, Muda69 said: The enrollment gap between Clinton Central and Clinton Prairie just keeps growing, where they used to always be very close. Could be Prairie just siphoning off more and more students from Frankfort due to their geographic proximity. A consolidation of the two high schools just make more and more sense. Take it a step further, combine Rossville, Central and Prairie into a single school and you would have 2 similar sized schools in the county. Quote
Irishman Posted January 9 Posted January 9 2 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said: Wasn't there some legislation ongoing right now , I think @Irishman seems to be one who follows closely but forcing schools to consolidate?? I don't believe the legislation forces buildings themselves to consolidate. If I remember right, it was about combing districts. That said, it very well could lead to consolidating schools themselves, but the intent was to reduce the number of admins. I don't believe the bill passed though. I will have to check though. Quote
HoopsCoach Posted January 9 Author Posted January 9 1 hour ago, Irishman said: I don't believe the legislation forces buildings themselves to consolidate. If I remember right, it was about combing districts. That said, it very well could lead to consolidating schools themselves, but the intent was to reduce the number of admins. I don't believe the bill passed though. I will have to check though. It was an amendment to Senate Bill 1, which was removed. It called for school corporations and districts within counties that have fewer than 50,000 residents to consolidate into a single district for the county. I think discussion occurred that led to a change to the threshold identified for the population which would have reduced it to something like 30,000, but the amendment was removed before SB1 was approved. 1 2 Quote
Muda69 Posted January 10 Posted January 10 15 hours ago, Gatorguy said: Take it a step further, combine Rossville, Central and Prairie into a single school and you would have 2 similar sized schools in the county. Yes, that would be the logical best scenario. But Rossville residents will cling to their government school "independence" until the bitter end, I believe much more than Clinton Central and Clinton Prairie denizens will. It would probably take the Indiana National Guard coming in and forcibly barring access to the school building for Rossville citizens to finally capitulate. And then many would probably just transfer their students to schools outside of Clinton county, probably Harrison or Carroll. Quote
HoopsCoach Posted January 13 Author Posted January 13 On 1/8/2026 at 5:42 PM, crimsonace1 said: Of note, there WILL be adjustments to these. These are not final numbers and don't count anything as official until the IHSAA announces the classes. But they are instructive to see which schools will be on the bubble to go up/down. Don't be surprised to see some of the "small" 4As in this count end up in 3A, or vice-versa, or any other bubble schools. I compared the DOE numbers I posted from 2024 to the IHSAA enrollments that were used for classifications prior to the current cycle. Out of 403 schools, all but 19 of them were the exact same number used by the IHSAA as the DOE reported enrollment. The schools that were not the same number were mostly urban schools that likely have to count students that may not attend the member school but are eligible to participate with the athletic teams of the member school. The South Bend public schools, Evansville public schools, and the two Bloomington public schools accounted for 11 of the 19 schools that had a different number between DOE & IHSAA. I did not include the Warren Online Academy in the enrollment for Warren Central in 2024, which accounted for the difference between DOE & IHSAA for Warren Central. I forgot to add the WOA number to Warren Central again this year. Decatur Central was one of only two schools that actually had a lower number for the IHSAA than they report to the DOE. Their DOE number was 2050 but their IHSAA number was 1883. The other 6 schools with different numbers were relatively small differences - +13, +4, +2, +1, +1, and -1. 2 Quote
tango Posted January 13 Posted January 13 On 1/8/2026 at 10:29 AM, First_Backer_Inside said: Either them, Chatard, or Memorial off the top of my head would be the only two competing with them for that. Memorial was at 609 when we were bumped from 3A to 4A in 2019. Quote
23andCounting Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Observation: Homestead (SW FW) dropped in enrollment.......starting to resemble more of a 5A program. Carroll (NW) appears to be the only community in Fort Wayne that is growing. New Haven (SE) dropped. Leo (NE) appears to have dropped. Quote
psaboy Posted January 14 Posted January 14 31 minutes ago, 23andCounting said: Observation: Homestead (SW FW) dropped in enrollment.......starting to resemble more of a 5A program. Carroll (NW) appears to be the only community in Fort Wayne that is growing. New Haven (SE) dropped. Leo (NE) appears to have dropped. Where are they all going, further out towards Leo, Carroll, Kendallville?? Or are the private schools taking a chunk out of the public schools? Quote
Irishman Posted January 14 Posted January 14 1 hour ago, 23andCounting said: Observation: Homestead (SW FW) dropped in enrollment.......starting to resemble more of a 5A program. Carroll (NW) appears to be the only community in Fort Wayne that is growing. New Haven (SE) dropped. Leo (NE) appears to have dropped. New Haven is actually up. We have been climbing steadily in enrollment for a while now. We are listed at 1068 on the IHSAA site for this current cycle and ranked 95th, but 1117 now. We may even be higher for a February count. We were ranked number 111 in the 15-16 cycle, 106 in enrollment in the 17-18 cycle, 100 in 19-20, 95th with 1064 from 22-24 cycle. This year we are ranked 88th. There is a LOT of construction of housing editions as well as an apartment complex (I am sure there will be a split between FWCS and EACS there as it is a gray area as far as where kids can go) going on in town too. Not sure we will be able to handle the increased population it will all bring to the area as far as our building size goes. 1 Quote
23andCounting Posted January 14 Posted January 14 10 hours ago, Irishman said: New Haven is actually up. We have been climbing steadily in enrollment for a while now. We are listed at 1068 on the IHSAA site for this current cycle and ranked 95th, but 1117 now. We may even be higher for a February count. We were ranked number 111 in the 15-16 cycle, 106 in enrollment in the 17-18 cycle, 100 in 19-20, 95th with 1064 from 22-24 cycle. This year we are ranked 88th. There is a LOT of construction of housing editions as well as an apartment complex (I am sure there will be a split between FWCS and EACS there as it is a gray area as far as where kids can go) going on in town too. Not sure we will be able to handle the increased population it will all bring to the area as far as our building size goes. I was surprised at my findings regarding New Haven due to all the housing starts. Maybe I'm looking at unreliable sources. It was Homestead that shocked me the most. I'm pretty sure their enrollment went down. 1 Quote
First_Backer_Inside Posted February 4 Posted February 4 Should we expect the enrollment numbers sometime next week? Quote
Coach Nowlin Posted February 4 Posted February 4 Typically: Classifications 1st, then Sectionals next I believe the next executive IHSAA meeting is February 20th, so that would be the earliest that release is my guess 2 1 Quote
Daniel_Bragg Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Enrollments were announced on the 2nd Monday of February in 2024. Classifications were released on April 2nd. Sectional Assignments were released on April 30th. 1 Quote
BLACKGOLD2007 Posted February 17 Posted February 17 On 1/7/2026 at 8:55 PM, Sparty said: Looks like portage could be 5A which could really help them post season wise. Especially if they took Merrillville’s sectional spot (Morton/Hammond Central/Munster are the other schools). Sectional 1 in 6A just got more interesting. Merrillville moving up could elevate this sectional to one of the hardest in the state. This is assuming CP and Penn have similar seasons to last year. Quote
BLACKGOLD2007 Posted February 17 Posted February 17 1 hour ago, BLACKGOLD2007 said: Sectional 1 in 6A just got more interesting. Merrillville moving up could elevate this sectional to one of the hardest in the state. This is assuming CP and Penn have similar seasons to last year. I did not pay attention to all the teams moving up potentially and missed valpo. So, my statement is just nonsense into the wind. Sorry about that. Quote
Sparty Posted February 17 Posted February 17 4 hours ago, BLACKGOLD2007 said: I did not pay attention to all the teams moving up potentially and missed valpo. So, my statement is just nonsense into the wind. Sorry about that. It’s all good. I just had time to reread it and was thinking, I thought Valpo may be moving up too, but didn’t know for sure. Quote
First_Backer_Inside Posted February 18 Posted February 18 Your statement still has some truth to it. Sectional 1 could still be interesting even though Penn probably won't be in it. Quote
crimsonace1 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 Executive Committee meets Friday (but the IHSAA comms staff will be at the wrestling State Finals that day), so there's a good chance we'll see something announced early next week. 1 Quote
jets Posted February 18 Posted February 18 10 minutes ago, crimsonace1 said: Executive Committee meets Friday (but the IHSAA comms staff will be at the wrestling State Finals that day), so there's a good chance we'll see something announced early next week. Is there somewhere we can see who is on the Executive Committee? Quote
crimsonace1 Posted February 18 Posted February 18 https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/011526 Executive Committee.pdf 1 Quote
US31 Posted February 24 Posted February 24 The realignment meeting is supposed to happen next Thursday, so you'd think they'd release the enrollment numbers before then... "The realignment committee will meet on Thursday, March 5 to place schools in their respective sectionals in the three, four and six class sports. Those recommendations will then be presented the Executive Committee for a vote at its May 5 meeting." From IHSAA Executive Meeting Minutes 1/15/26 1 Quote
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