North Knox School Corporation

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North Knox School Corporation (NKSC) is a school district in Knox County, Indiana. The district administration is in Widner Township, with a Bicknell postal address. [1]

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It is made up of the following townships: Busseron, Vigo, Washington, and Widner. The district includes the municipalities of Bicknell, Bruceville, Edwardsport, Oaktown, and Sandborn, and the census-designated places of Emison, Freelandville, Ragsdale, and Westphalia. [2]

History

In 1961 there was a petition to try to create the school district. [3]

The North Knox School Corp. came into existence in school year 1963-64, with the consolidation of all the smaller northern Knox County high schools to one central location. Those small-town high schools were located at Bicknell, Freelandville, Bruceville, Oaktown, Edwardsport, Sandborn, Westphalia and Emison. At that time, grades 1-8 remained at the smaller locations, with the exception of Edwardsport students, who were transferred to Freelandville School.[ citation needed ]

In 1966 the U.S. Office of Education gave a $40,251 grant to fund a reading improvement program for the district. [4]

Schools

The district formerly operated North Knox East Elementary and Junior High School in Edwardsport. The district created it in the former Edwardsport High School, which had been established in 1956. In 2011 the school closed. In 2015 the State of Indiana allowed the district to sell the school. [5] North Knox decided to sell the building after it no longer needed to use the gymnasium facilities as a new auxiliary gym had opened in the district's junior and senior high school. In 2017 the North Knox East building had not yet been sold. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Geography Division (April 8, 2021). 2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Widner township, IN (PDF) (Map). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2025-06-08. - Compare with the district headquarters's location: "11110 N. SR 159 Bicknell, IN 47512" - Despite the "Bicknell, IN" post address name, it is outside of the municipal limits of Bicknell. The City of Houston stated: "The U.S. Postal Service establishes ZIP codes and mailing addresses in order to maximize the efficiency of their system, not to recognize jurisdictional boundaries."
  2. ↑ Geography Division (December 18, 2020). 2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Knox County, IN (PDF) (Map). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2025-06-08. - Text list
  3. ↑ "State Board Approves Three-Unit Plan For Knox Schools; No Protests Heard". The Vincennes Sun-Commercial . Vol. 31, no. 45. Vincennes, Indiana. 1961-11-15. pp.  1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "North Knox Receives Federal Grant To Help Improved-Reading Program". The Vincennes Sun-Commercial . Vol. 35, no. 122. Vincennes, Indiana. 1966-02-17. p.  1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Cohen, Jess (2015-11-26). "For Sale: Former school, reasonably priced, make an offer". Vincennes Sun-Commercial . Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  6. ↑ Cohen, Jess (2017-10-25). "Old East school building remains on the market". Vincennes Sun-Commercial . Retrieved 2025-06-08.
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