Caston School Corporation

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Caston School Corp. Superintendent Angie Miller believes extra reading and math assistance for the corporation’s students are what has helped them do well on the state ILEARN test and subsequently got the corporation recognized in a recent Ball State University study.

Caston was mentioned in the study “A ‘Value-Added’ Measure of School Performance in Indiana,” completed by Dr. Michael J. Hicks and Dr. Dagney Faulk of the university’s Center for Business and Economic Research.

Hicks and Faulk named Caston as one of 10 school corporations in the state which improved their overall “value” based on eighth graders’ ILEARN scores from 2022 and 2025. That value was based off of Caston students doing well on the ILEARN despite having some barriers which could have hindered their progress.

Miller noted Caston has many low-income students.

She said the corporation has added extra educational interventions at the middle school as well as continued extra help for kids at the elementary level.

“If we just teach the same thing to everybody, that’s not going to make the improvements (needed), so I think there’s been a very concerted effort here to meet students where they are,” said Miller.

She added she thinks Caston’s 830 students in K-12 all being in the same building has helped educational results.

“If you look (at what corporations are recognized in the study,) a lot of these schools are small, rural (ones), and I just truly believe that we know these kids,” said Miller. “We have far fewer kids that fall through the cracks because we know our kids, and then when you’re in a building that’s K-12 under one roof, I mean sometimes our secondary people reach back (to help elementary students), elementary people reach up to (help) the secondary kids.”

She added with people talking over the years about consolidating smaller public schools, the Ball State study results showed that “small rural schools are a great place to educate your kids.”

Miller said Caston staff will continue to “keep working to get better, and first of all, building those relationships and then looking at data, so that we know where our kids are.”

She emphasized Caston’s students doing well was due to “a team effort” among staff. Miller added the study “was a great way to recognize our teachers for their hard work.”

“Sometimes you don’t get the good news,” she said. “You get the bad news, and this was something that gave them recognition, and I’m just very proud of them.”

By Leah Sander, Staff Writer. Photo provided by Caston School Corporation.
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It's gameday, boys! Let's make some history!

Come out and support the team - buses leave at 7:20a. First pitch at 11a (weather permitting)

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Caston School Corporation Fans, here's some additional information for Saturday. If you'd like to be a part of the team send-off, that will happen at 7:20am from the South parking lot. They'll head south on 25 and turn east onto 16 and travel through Twelve Mile.

The address for Carroll HS is 3701 Carroll Rd, Ft. Wayne, IN 46818

Tickets ($10) will be available at the gate with cash or credit or pre-purchased at this link: https://public.eventlink.com/tickets?t=192597&p=294955

If you are unable to make it to Fort Wayne, there will be a FREE livestream of the contest found here: https://www.ihsaatv.org/carrollhighschool/

Lastly, we are the designated home team but have chosen to be in the first base dugout. Please sit on that side to cheer on the Comets

Please see the attached link if interested in ordering a 2026 Baseball Sectional Championship T-shirt to support our squad, which advanced last night in state tournament action!

https://castonbaseballsectionalchamps2026.itemorder.com/

All orders need to be placed by Wednesday, June 3rd, at 3pm. Winning Edge should have them at the school by Friday afternoon, at which point, they'll be distributed. As always, don't hesitate to get in touch with Trent Tocco, Caston Athletic Director, at [email protected] if you have any questions. Caston Schools Athletics

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Caston Baseball wins Sectional 50!!!❤️💙

Mrs. Harrison's 4th grade class participated in a Mystery Geography Meeting. They learned all about the state of Indiana, maps, and had several geography lessons. The class was paired up with a class from another state and they had to come up with geographical yes/no questions to determine which state the other class was in. Mrs. Harrison's class is the first class from Indiana to participate in this collaboration. Students learned so much and did an amazing job teaching another state about Indiana!

Students at Caston love to celebrate learning!!! Mrs. Shultz's ACP class celebrated the culmination of a year of ACP classes, as well as reading The Kite Runner, by flying kites.