Carroll Middle School

Carroll Middle School operates as an expansive middle school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, overseen by Northwest Allen County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,004 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Carroll Middle School sits 69% bigger than that benchmark.

Northwest Allen County Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 8,409 students; Carroll Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Carroll Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 7% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Carroll Middle School shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Allen County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Carroll Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of -8.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Allen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Allen County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), Carroll Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Eel River Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carroll Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carroll Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Carroll Middle School's enrollment has expanded 11% since 2018, when it stood at 901 (now 1,004). White enrollment moved from 84% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Carroll Middle School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.