Gary Community School Corporation is a school district headquartered in Gary, Indiana.
The school district includes the majority of Gary.
History In 2017, Gary Community Corp became the first school system in Indiana involved in a state takeover. Control of the district was transferred from the elected school board and appointed school superintendent to the State of Indiana's Distressed Unit Appeals Board, which placed MGT Consulting and Emergency Fiscal Manager Peggy Hinckley in charge of managing the district.Puente, Michael. "Struggling Gary Schools Open Under New Leadership — The State", WBEZ. August 17, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2021. Gary school board President Rosie Washington was quoted as saying "We Have No Power", in the context of the state's takeover.McCollum, Carmen. "Gary school board members frustrated by their lack of power", The Times of Northwest Indiana. November 30, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2021. In November 2018, it was discovered that former Indiana Superintendent Tony Bennett, who directed policies that led to the state takeover, has an ownership stake in the for-profit company selected to manage the takeover with the potential to earn $11.4 million.
School uniforms All GCSC students from pre-Kindergarten through the 12th grade are required to wear school uniforms."Uniforms Are Coming to The Middle Schools! " Gary Community School Corporation. Starting the 2007-2008 Academic School year, all schools followed the new "school uniform" policy. The school uniform policy varies for school and grade level, such as color.
Schools All schools are located in Gary. Gary Community School Corporation operates most of the public schools in the city proper.
High schools: West Side Leadership Academy
Middle schools: Bailly STEM Academy Gary Middle School
Elementary schools: Benjamin Banneker Achievement Center Beveridge Elementary School Glen Park Academy For Excellence In Learning Frankie W. McCullough Elementary School (formerly McCullough Academy for Girls) Daniel Hale Williams Elementary School
Early childhood centers: Mary McLeod Bethune Early Childhood Development Center
Ungraded: Gary Area Career Center
Former schools Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Jacques Marquette Elementary School Dr. Bernard C. Watson Academy for Boys Dr. Bernard C. Watson Academy For Boys, an all boys' zoned elementary school, opened in 2006 in the former Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary School. McCullough Academy for Girls, an all girls' zoned elementary school, opened in the former David O. Duncan Elementary School in 2006. These schools served Dorie Miller Public Housing Development and Delaney Public Housing Development."Bernard C. Watson Academy For Boys ." Gary School Corporation. Retrieved on December 18, 2015. Watson was scheduled to close in 2014.Scott, Louise. "Gary closes six schools at year's end ." Gary Crusader. June 5, 2014. Retrieved on December 18, 2015. Williams Annex - it was the sole school in the Gary CSC that only served middle schoolHome . Williams Annex. Retrieved on February 5, 2017.
Former schools
High schools School Year closed Emerson High School 2008 Horace Mann High School 2004 Lew Wallace High School 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Academy 2018 Theodore Roosevelt College and Career Academy 2020 William A. Wirt High School 2009Froebel High School 1977
Thomas A. Edison High School 1968
Tolleston High School 1969
Middle schools School Year closed Alfred Beckman Middle School 2005 Bailly Middle School — Casimir Pulaski Junior High School 2014 Dunbar-Pulaski Middle School 2015 Thomas A. Edison Middle School 2003 Tolleston Middle School 2010
Elementary schools School Year closed Notes Aetna Elementary School 2005 Alain L Locke Elementary School 2006 Ambridge Elementary School 2010 Arthur P. Melton Elementary School 2006 Benjamin Franklin Elementary School 2008 Black Oak Elementary 2001 Brunswick Elementary School 2016 Daniel Webster Elementary School 2016 Dr Bernard C. Watson Academy For Boys 2018 Ernie Pyle Elementary School 2010 Frankie Woods McCullough Academy for Girls 2012 George Washington Carver School 2006 Grissom Elementary School 2014 Horace S. Norton Elementary School 2006 Ivanhoe Elementary School 2010 Jacques Marquette Elementary School 2021 James Whitcomb Riley Elementary School 2005 Jefferson Elementary School 2018 John H. Vohr Elementary 2010 Kennedy King Elementary School 2009 Now Gary Middle School George Kuny Elementary School 2010 M C Bennett Holiness School 2004 New Technical Innovative Institute Elementary School 2018 Nobel Elementary School 2006 School For Life Ministries 2014 Spaulding Elementary School 2005
See also Gary Charter Schools Lake Ridge Schools Corporation Education in Gary, Indiana
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