- North Central High School (Farmersburg, Indiana)
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North Central Jr./Sr. High School Address 910 E. Co. Rd. 975 N.
Farmersburg, Indiana, Indiana, 47850
United StatesInformation Type Public high school Motto "We are one." Established 1957-1958 Locale Medium Town Principal Mr. Dunning Faculty 29 certified teachers, 2 administrators, 3 certified non-teaching positions Grades 7-12 Enrollment 525[1] (2008-2009) Athletics basketball, football, tennis, golf, track, cross country, baseball, and softball Mascot Thunderbird Contents
Background
North Central jr/sr high school is a jr./sr. high school on the outskirts of Farmersburg, Indiana. The school celebrated its 50th year of service in 2007-08. It is one of 2 high schools and one of 6 schools in the Northeast school corporation of Sullivan County, IN.
North Central's mascot is the Thunderbirds, named for an old local mine, that was operating in nearby Farmersburg and Shelburn, Indiana at the time of the start of the school.
Extracurricular activities
North Central offers a number of Extracurricular activities before, after, and sometimes even during school hours. The junior high has activities such as a SADD club, a juniorBeta club, tutoring, and a drama club. The Senior High offers many of the same activities such as a SADD club and a Beta club along with tutoring and drama, whose play this fall will be "The Clumsy Custard Horror Show and Ice Cream Clone Review", but also has some others such as weightlifting and a color guard.
Also the choir boosters sponsor a yearly play for students to try out for and perform in front of audience members after weeks of practice and training. The junior high choir is also starting a show choir to run in six week sessions to give the opportunity to kids in different sports to participate in their off-seasons.
North Central also has a yearly musical production put on by the choral and drama departments of the school with the cast consisting of students in the choral or drama programs. This years production will be Beauty And The Beast.
North Central adopted a non-smoking procedure during summer break in 2008 so that smoking is prohibited on the school campus.
Harmony Electronic Gradebook
In the 2008-09 school year North Central began using a new electronic gradebook for all of the classes and parents can look at their children's grades online on the corporation's website by using a login and password sent the parents in the beginning of the seconds semester of classes and can check each classes assignments and look at the specific grades for the class. Teachers are being encouraged to keep the online grades up to date and starting in the fall of 2009 will be encouraged to put each nights homework assignments on the program so that the parents can see what the kids are supposed to be doing each night.
Athletics
North Central is a class A school in the Indiana High School Athletic Association or ISHAA that is part of the Tri-River conference. The sports in which the school participates, each ones coach, whether it is a fall, winter, or spring sport, and the current or last record of the team are shown in the following table (Note: Only Varsity teams will be included in the table):
North Central (Farmersburg) Athletics Sport Coach Season Record Boys Football Brian Crabtree Fall 1-9 Girls Golf Vicki Ficklin Fall Unknown Boys Tennis John Caton Fall Unknown Girls Volleyball Jacob Cummings Fall 13-`2 Coed Cross Country Jeff Ransford & Jessica Wayton Fall Unknown Boys Basketball Ryan Kamman Winter 2-1 Girls Basketball Gretchen Brown Winter 5-2 Boys Golf Ryan Kamman Spring Unknown Boys Baseball Darin Simpson Spring 13-6 Girls Softball Leela Gilam Spring Unknown Coed Track Jeff Ransford & Jessica Wayton Spring Unknown School song
North Centrals fight song is an edited-version of the Notre Dame fight song.
"North Central High Fight Song Lyrics"
Cheer, Cheer, for North Central High!
We'll never falter. We'll never die!
If you Thunderbirds Go, Fight, Win!
We'll have a victory in the end!
Ba Da Da!
Wave your banner carry them high!
We'll always fight for our green and white!
We'll back central all the way!
Fight for North Central High!
"Cheerleaders"
Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds, Fight, Fight, Fight!
Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds, Win Tonight!Statistics
These are some statistics of the school as off of the Indian Department of Eductation website
Student Migration
- 2006-07 to 2007-08[2]
- Farmersburg Elementary School 41 Pupils
- Shelburn Elementary School 28 Pupils
- Hymera Elementary School 17 Pupils
- Honey Creek Middle School 5 Pupils
Ethnicity
- 2007-08[3]
- 96.7% White 502 Pupils
- 1.7% Multi-Racial 9 Pupils
- 0.8% Hispanic 4 Pupils
- 0.6% Native American 3 Pupils
- 0.2% Asian 1 Pupil
- 0.0% Black 0 Pupils
Free Lunch
- 2007-08[4]
- Paid Lunch 52.2% 271 Pupils
- Reduced Lunch 14.8% 77 Pupils
- Free Lunch 32.9% 171 Pupils
Attendance Rate
- Preliminary Data 2007-08[5]
- State Average 95.9%
- Total 95.1%
- Male 95.2%
- Female 95.0%
- Multi-Racial 95.2%
- White 95.2%
ISTEP Results
- 2008-09 Fall
English/LA
- 7th Grade - 77 Pupils Tested,0% Pass Plus 0 Pupils, 49% Passed 38 Pupils, 51% Failed 39 Pupils[6]
- 8th Grade - 100 Pupils Tested, 10% Pass Plus 10 Pupils, 53% Passed 53 Pupils, 36% Failed 36 Pupils, 1% Undetermined 1 Pupil[7]
- 9th Grade - Not Tested In Fall Of 2008
- 10th Grade - 89 Pupils Tesed, 0% Pass Plus 0 Pupils, 62% Passed 55 Pupils, 36% Failed 32 Pupils, 2% Undetermined 2 Pupils [8]
Mathematics
- 7th Grade - 77 Pupils Tested, 10% Pass Plus 8 Pupils, 68% Passed 52 Pupils, 21% Failed 16 Pupils, 1% Undetermined 1 Pupil[9]
- 8th Grade - 100 Pupils Tested, 12% Pass Plus 12 Pupils, 53% Passed 53 Pupils, 35% Failed 35 Pupils,[10]
- 9th Grade - Not Tested In Fall Of 2008
- 10th Grade - 89 Pupils Tested, 2% Pass Plus 2 Pupils, 54% Passed 48 Pupils, 44% Failed 39 Pupils,[11]
SAT
- 2007-08
- 40% of Seniors Taking [12]
Average Scores
- Writing 473[13]
- Mathematics 494[14]
- Critical Reading 470[15]
- Composite Score College-Bound Seniors(Verbal & Math) 964[16]
Graduation Rate
- 2006-07[17]
- 87.5% of Pupils
- 63 Pupils
- 28.6% Honors Grads 18 Pupils
- 34.9% Core 40 Only 22 Pupils
- 36.5% Regular Grads 23 Pupils
- 73% Pursuing College Education 46 Pupils
Other
- 2006-07 or 2007-08
- 7% Taking An Advanced Placement Test
- 10% Of Seniors Taking An ACT Exam
- 23.6 ACT Composite Score
External links
- Official School Website http://www.nesc.k12.in.us/nchs/default.html
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