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Carmel and Center Grove will rejoin the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference (MIC) in the 2026-27 school year.

Operating as independents created significant scheduling challenges, particularly for football programs.

Nearly four years after Carmel and Center Grove were voted out of the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference , two of the original members of the MIC are rejoining one of the preeminent high school conferences in the Midwest.

The six schools in the current MIC and the two “newcomers” made the joint announcement Thursday after the two schools have been voted back into the league by administrators from Ben Davis, Lawrence Central, Lawrence North, North Central, Pike and Warren Central.

“It just felt natural for us to be in a conference,” Center

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