IHSAA announces 2024-2025 enrollment totals, class re-alignment to follow in April
By Kris Norton
The final recommendations to confirm classes will not come until April, though the enrollment totals for the upcoming school year may shed light on which schools might move down, or up, in re-alignment.
As stated in the following press release, only four-class sports will be affected - football and soccer will see no changes in the amendment process.
However, basketball, baseball, softball, and volleyball will see changes.
The classes will be broken down as follows: the largest 20% of schools will compete in Class 4A, the next 25% in Class 3A, the next 25% in 2A, and the smallest 30% in Class 1A.
Local Enrollment Numbers (alphabetically):
Barr-Reeve 282
Crawford County 379
Forest Park 353
Heritage Hills 635
Jasper 1,092
Northeast Dubois 254
Loogootee 239
Pike Central 474
Princeton Community 600
South Spencer 352
Southridge 576
Springs Valley 266
Tecumseh 286
Tell City 403
Vincennes Lincoln 711
Washington 810
The full press release from the IHSAA can be read in its entirety below:
The enrollment totals of IHSAA member schools which will be used in the next reclassification and realignment process this spring have been announced. Those enrollment figures, the total of boys and girls in grades 9-12, were submitted by the schools to the Indiana Department of Education and are used to determine the classifications in the recognized team sports of baseball, boys and girls basketball, football, boys and girls soccer, softball, and volleyball, the next two school years.
The classifications for each school in each sport will be announced in the coming weeks with the new process for four-class sports (baseball, basketball, softball, and volleyball) being utilized. That plan, passed by the IHSAA Executive Committee last June, places the largest 20% of schools in Class 4A, the next 25% in Class 3A, the next 25% in 2A and the smallest 30% in Class 1A.
Since 1997-98, the rule required distributing schools equally (25% each) among the four classes. Football (six classes) and soccer (three classes) are not affected and will continue as they have in previous years. Following that classification announcement, committee meetings made up of school administrators from around the state will be conducted to make the sectional assignments.
Their final recommendations will be presented to the IHSAA Executive Committee for its approval in late April.