Carmel High School
Carmel, IN·Public·Midsize city·Carmel Clay Schools
Dual enrollment in Indiana
College credit earned while still in high school. It is the single largest lever on a college bill, and what it costs your family depends almost entirely on which state you are in.
The state caps what a college may charge a high-school student - well below the normal per-credit rate, but not free.
Dual Credit (Priority Course List — Liberal Arts and Career & Technical Education)
Free
At Ivy Tech Community College — by far Indiana's largest dual credit provider — dual credit courses taught in the high school are free: the college states no tuition is charged to the student or to the school and that Ivy Tech absorbs the cost. This is NOT a statewide $0 guarantee. Indiana Commission for Higher Education rate policy (Policy on Rates for Dual Credit Courses Taken in a High School Setting, adopted May 2013, in.gov/che, applying to Indiana public colleges only) capped the rate charged to Indiana students for priority liberal arts, CTE and early college courses at $25 per credit hour; that ceiling window as written ran July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2015 and could not be confirmed as still in force on any currently fetchable live state page, so it is not recorded as the numeric value here. Other providers (Vincennes, IU, Purdue, private colleges) set their own dual credit rates, and books/materials are generally not covered.
Who can enroll. Indiana high school students taking Ivy Tech dual credit at their own high school must show college readiness through a qualifying PSAT 10, SAT or ACT score, a cumulative GPA of 2.6 or higher for juniors and seniors, or the free Knowledge Assessment placement test. Courses span general education (English, math, sciences, social/behavioral sciences, humanities) and CTE. The $0 price applies only to Ivy Tech dual credit sections taught at a partner Indiana high school, not to Ivy Tech 'dual enrollment' courses taken on campus or online, which are billed at the regular part-time rate.
Anchored on 1 public college in Indiana · verified 2026-07-31.
Community colleges in Indiana
We do not hold map coordinates for this school, so these are the largest community colleges in the state rather than the closest ones. Check the drive before you plan around any of them. Open one to see what starting there and transferring would actually save.
Scholarships only this school's students can win
Awards in our corpus that name this high school. Smaller applicant pools than anything national - often by orders of magnitude.
Results
State assessments, 2021. Reported by EDFacts as ranges rather than exact figures, to keep small cohorts from being identifiable.
| Year | Math | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 77% | 90% |
| 2019 | 71% | 89% |
| 2018 | 73% | 86% |
Who goes here
13% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That figure is also the federal shorthand for family income, and it is what most need-based aid and fee waivers key on.
Outside of class
Activities colleges actually read on an application - and where to find them near this school. Depth in one or two beats a list of ten.
Plan from here
Directory, enrollment and staffing from the NCES Common Core of Data; proficiency and graduation from EDFacts. Dual-enrollment funding rules from state policy, verified on our last review. Figures change - confirm with the school before relying on one. NCES record