CoachMiller

Unique scenario for most people, as 5A Elkhart Memorial and 5A Elkhart Central have essentially released their coaching staffs, due to combining into 6A Elkhart High School for next year. Position is posted and closes next Monday, November 18. 

https://apps.elkhart.k12.in.us/employment/Job.aspx?id=2275

Looks like you will have your answer soon enough. The position is posted on the ECS website. If I read it correctly, it is only open to apply for a week.

https://apps.elkhart.k12.in.us/employment/Job.aspx?id=2275

1 minute ago, crimsonace1 said:

The IHSAA, historically, has not reclassified schools when they consolidate mid-cycle. Muncie Central competed in 3A basketball and 4A football with an enrollment north of 1600. Unless there's a bylaw change this spring, Elkhart will be in 5A in 2020. 

Not according to the IHSAA document at the top of the thread

6 minutes ago, Bullhorn99 said:

For 5A, do you think they might send the Elkhart schools over to Munster, LaPorte, MC for one year? That way when Valpo moves down, that 5A sectional will make more sense geographically?

This is what we thought could happen if the IHSAA decided to swap Elkhart High School and Valpo in 2020, which they did. No clue if that is what they will do but it does seem to make sense:

2019

6A Sectional 2-Valpo, Chesterton, Penn, Warsaw

5A Sectional 9-Munster, Michigan City, LaPorte, SB Adams

5A Sectional 10-Mishawaka, Elkhart Memorial, Elkhart Central, Concord, Goshen

2020

6A Sectional 2- Chesterton, Penn, Warsaw, Elkhart

5A Sectional 9-Munster, Michigan City, LaPorte, Valpo

5A Sectional 10-Mishawaka, Concord, Goshen, SB Adams

31 minutes ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I have been told by administration at Memorial, single school begins 21-22 school year. It's still two years away. 

There will be "one" school operating under one number beginning in 2020-2021. There will only be one softball team for Elkhart, one swimming team, etc-that all begins that school year. The next year, 2021-2022, is when the merged campuses will officially open (grades 10-12 at current Memorial location, grade 9 at current Central location). There is only one more school year, 2019-2020, of Memorial and Central fielding their own teams.

Full disclosure, what I posted was not my idea, just something someone else said.

Also, I asked why COULDN'T they do that. Saying "this is they way they have done it before" is an answer to why WOULDN'T they do that. I also am interested in the answer to Knight82's question, since I have very limited knowledge on the Muncie situation, too.

So, I am simply curious, when one looks at enrollment numbers, why couldn't they just do this:

2019

6A Sectional 2-Valpo, Chesterton, Penn, Warsaw

5A Sectional 9-Munster, Michigan City, LaPorte, SB Adams

5A Sectional 10-Mishawaka, Elkhart Memorial, Elkhart Central, Concord, Goshen

2020

6A Sectional 2- Chesterton, Penn, Warsaw, Elkhart

5A Sectional 9-Munster, Michigan City, LaPorte, Valpo

5A Sectional 10-Mishawaka, Concord, Goshen, SB Adams

11 hours ago, HoopsCoach said:

Just like the merger of Muncie Central and Southside, and the merger of Rockville and  Turkey Run, the unified Elkhart High School will remain in the class the two separate schools are placed in for both years of the alignment cycle.  The unified school will be in 5A for one year, then most likely move up to 6A in the next alignment cycle.  The IHSAA won’t move them up because they have no way of knowing what the actual enrollment of the school will be until that school year (2020-21) begins.  It’s too late to make a class change by that time, so they just keep schools in the class they are aligned to at the beginning of the cycle.  If they did move them up, they would have to move the smallest 6A school down, which could require a shift in all of the sectionals in 5A and 6A.

Makes sense. With the 4 and 5 team Sectionals in 6A/5A, it wouldn't be that difficult to figure it out, or least much easier than it would be in some other classes, but I get your point.

On 1/14/2019 at 3:58 PM, indycoach10 said:

Only reclassify every 2 years. So earliest they could bump is in 2021. 

This is the issue: Elkhart Memorial and Elkhart Central are two 5A schools. Both schools will no longer exist after this coming season (19-20). Then a new 6A school will exist for 20-21. So, what happens?