Owensville High School (Indiana)

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Owensville Montgomery Township
High School
Kickapoos
Location
Owensville, Indiana
United States
Information
Type Public High School
Closed 1974 Consolidated into Gibson Southern .
School district South Gibson
Grades K-12
Enrollment 226 (1973)
Color(s)            
Athletics conference Pocket
Mascot The Chief Kick

Owensville High School, sometimes referred to as Owensville Montgomery High School or Owensville Montgomery Township School was a K-12 Public learning facility located in Owensville, Indiana.

Owensville, Indiana Town in Indiana, United States

Owensville is the third largest town and the smallest of the five larger communities in Gibson County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,284 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Evansville, Indiana, Metropolitan Area.

History

Owensville High School was one of the three high schools under South Gibson School Corporation that merged into Gibson Southern High School in 1974. Like the current Owensville Community School, the mascot is the Kickapoos and school colors were Black and Gold. Owensville High School was one of the nine founding members of the Pocket Athletic Conference in 1938 and its membership was transferred to Gibson Southern High School along with Fort Branch High School and Haubstadt High School. [1]

South Gibson School Corporation

The South Gibson School Corporation is the largest of the three public school governing institutions in both enrollment and territory covered in Gibson County, Indiana as well as one of the ten largest in enrollment in Southwestern Indiana. The SGSC is responsible for a district including four townships of southern and southwestern Gibson County; Johnson, Montgomery, Union, Wabash, and parts of Barton, Center and Patoka Townships within Gibson County as well as drawing in students from Northern Vanderburgh and Posey Counties. It consists of a superintendent, a five-member school board, eight principals and vice principals and employs around 190 teachers and specialists. The SGSC's renovation of the 35-year-old Gibson Southern High School was complete as of 2010-11 School Year.

Gibson Southern High School

Gibson Southern High School is a public high school located near Fort Branch in Gibson County in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the largest of the three high schools in the county, which also include Princeton Community, and Wood Memorial High Schools.

Pocket Athletic Conference

The Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Its members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools located in Dubois, Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, and Warrick counties. Only one, Tecumseh, is a 1A. Tecumseh operates its football program independently of the PAC and remains independent in the sport, playing schools much closer to its size than its much larger borderline 3A or 3A fellow members.

Owensville High School had the first high school gymnasium in Indiana with a glass backboard. One of those backboards is now in the Indiana High School Basketball Hall of Fame proudly located in New Castle, Indiana. The school continued to be used as Owensville Community School until the current building was completed in 1992. The School was subsequently demolished. Owensville High School's gym still exists as the REH Center. The school was located on the southwest corner of Walnut and Mill Streets in Owensville.

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References

  1. AlmanacSports.com - Boys Basketball Archived 2007-01-09 at the Wayback Machine . (down)

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