Just asking

[WestfieldRocks]

1 hour ago, 23andCounting said:

I mean, that would be the best thing for the students, right?

Winning trophies, from what I've heard, trumps everything else. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe a tax issue? Building another high school isn't cheap.

HSE district would add a third high school before Carmel ever would add a second one. I once knew someone in their admin, now about 25 years ago. Carmel was "huge" then compared to most other schools. He told me that it would never happen.

Edited October 7, 2025 by WestfieldRocks

[temptation]

10 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Perry and Southport hold their own in various other sports...Its not always just about football.  Let the kids play.

Besides...if I follow your formula...too many free lunches for them sustain excellence on the gridiron.

I just wonder when it will penetrate into your noggin, that one isn't triggered simply because they don't align with 100% of your views.  Put the ego away...its not personal.

1.  Can you show me where Perry/Southport are holding their own?

2. Yes, they are in 6A purgatory...small enrollment relative to their class, ethnic population through the roof, and high poverty.

3.  You sarcasm/cynical comments actually do point things in the direction of personal.

Its cool though.  I too remember my first crush.

Edited October 7, 2025 by temptation

[PDB26]

27 minutes ago, WestfieldRocks said:

HSE district would add a third high school before Carmel ever would add a second one. I once knew someone in their admin, now about 25 years ago. Carmel was "huge" then compared to most other schools. He told me that it would never happen.

I think the decision for multiple high schools has to be made by the time you're starting to run out of room for 3000ish students.

[Bash Riprock]

1 hour ago, temptation said:

1.  Can you show me where Perry/Southport are holding their own?

2. Yes, they are in 6A purgatory...small enrollment relative to their class, ethnic population through the roof, and high poverty.

3.  You sarcasm/cynical comments actually do point things in the direction of personal.

Its cool though.  I too remember my first crush.

I don't know Temp....Southport won a sectional and regional championship in boy's soccer last year.  Perry sectional runner up in boys wrestling.  Southport 3rd in boys track sectional.  Southport runner up in girls volleyball sectional.  IHSAA keeps all the results....feel free to go check.

Not sarcastic Temp...just bored.  Don't align with you on merging the 2 Perry schools into a school of 5000....only because it takes away opportunities for kids to participate.  You don't have to agree...I don't care if you do or don't.  

[temptation]

10 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

I don't know Temp....Southport won a sectional and regional championship in boy's soccer last year.  Perry sectional runner up in boys wrestling.  Southport 3rd in boys track sectional.  Southport runner up in girls volleyball sectional.  IHSAA keeps all the results....feel free to go check.

Not sarcastic Temp...just bored.  Don't align with you on merging the 2 Perry schools into a school of 5000....only because it takes away opportunities for kids to participate.  You don't have to agree...I don't care if you do or don't.  

So 1 sectional/regional title between the two schools with 40+ opportunities huh?

[Sparty]

4 hours ago, Indiana Fan said:

Exactly…

Carmel splits into 2 - Carmel high and Clay high. Could possibly split into 3.

HSE &Fishers split into a 3rd.

 

HSE and Fishers split into a 3rd?   Not following.  Can you explain.  

[Bash Riprock]

19 hours ago, temptation said:

So 1 sectional/regional title between the two schools with 40+ opportunities huh?

I didn't look at all the sports....so is a sectional title the only way you determine success?  If combined and they won a few more sectional titles, would that outweigh the lost opportunities for kids to participate...especially as you mentioned in economically challenged area?  More kids on the sofa or on the streets worth the "possible" few added wins?  

If Perry Township ever decided to combine the high schools, winning sectionals wouldn't be the driver.  It would be economics.

Edited October 8, 2025 by Bash Riprock

[Muda69]

On 10/5/2025 at 3:19 PM, Gipper said:

Lastly we have Frankfort (Clinton County) who improved a little bit by adding Central and Prairie.

 

Actually it's the other way around.  Scuttlebutt from several elementary school teachers in CSF is that a larger and larger number of parents are sending their children to Prairie, Rossville, and Central.  Heck, a Clinton Central school bus comes into town every morning around 7:30am to pick up a load of 15-20 students at the parking lot of a local church building.  Then bring them back after school.   Not sure if Prairie and Rossville do that same.

 

 

On 10/5/2025 at 4:11 PM, PHJIrish said:

Maybe Hamilton County schools should merge. 😉

It's no secret that Westfield is aiming to gobble up and annex all the land around Sheridan.  Saw something in the Indy Star about it recently.

 

 

[Muda69]

On 10/6/2025 at 8:31 AM, foxbat said:

West Lafayette looks much more like LCC than any of the other schools.

 

?  Lot and lots of Catholics?  WL is primarily children of parents who work at Purdue, normally not exactly a religious bunch. 

 

[PDB26]

19 hours ago, Sparty said:

HSE and Fishers split into a 3rd?   Not following.  Can you explain.  

Seems like a suggestion for the district to add a third high school.

[crimsonace1]

22 hours ago, WestfieldRocks said:

HSE district would add a third high school before Carmel ever would add a second one. I once knew someone in their admin, now about 25 years ago. Carmel was "huge" then compared to most other schools. He told me that it would never happen.

Remember, a few people who live in Carmel (especially western Clay Township), Carmel is as much a brand and a part of their identity. It says "we chose the best of the best - community, schools, athletics." Any split would likely take the Clay Township folks from west of Carmel into their own school ... and two things would happen. One, Clay would probably be the better athletic program, and two, the people for whom "being from Carmel" means the most aren't sending their kids to "Carmel." 

Old-line Greyhounds wouldn't take kindly to them losing state championships to a school *within their own district.* 

HSE actually has talked about creating a third high school, but IIRC, it would be a magnet/special school (e.g., a "University" early college high school) that would have no athletics and the kids who want to play sports would go to the school where they were zoned. 

[crimsonace1]

8 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

It's no secret that Westfield is aiming to gobble up and annex all the land around Sheridan.  Saw something in the Indy Star about it recently.

 

Even if Westfield does annex lands around Sheridan, most school district boundaries are based on township lines and existing boundaries, and are not/cannot be adjusted because the town's boundaries expand and cross said district lines. 

There are a number of places within Greenwood's town limits, for example, that are in Whiteland's school district (which wraps around Greenwood to the south and east). 

[Robert]

On 10/5/2025 at 3:19 PM, Gipper said:

What if many of our medium to kind of big cities take a page out of Terre Haute’s playbook and merge?  Let’s take a gander:

In Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), we’d have a combo of Jeff, Harrison, McCutcheon, and West Lafayette would be the squad as CC would invoke separation of church and state and stand on its own.  

Muncie (Delaware County) could we a little more formidable.  Although Central gobbled up the Southside Rebels years ago, Delta, Lapel, and Yorktown would be good benefits to a hapless Bearcat squad.

Kokomo (Howard County)—I like this one as Eastern, Northwestern, Taylor, and Western join their big city compatriots.

Columbus (Bartholew County)—North and East: what could possibly go wrong?

Bloomington (Monroe County)—combing North, South, and Edgewood is not enough as they’ll be invading both Martinsville and Bedford (and maybe Seymour) to attain football dominance in the 812.

Lastly we have Frankfort (Clinton County) who improved a little bit by adding Central and Prairie.  Additionally, Maconaquah, after getting spurned by Kokomo, goes covert and joins the Hot Dogs.

 

 

 

 

Wherever Haworth goes, schools merge.

 

[23andCounting]

1 minute ago, crimsonace1 said:

Remember, a few people who live in Carmel (especially western Clay Township), Carmel is as much a brand and a part of their identity. It says "we chose the best of the best - community, schools, athletics." Any split would likely take the Clay Township folks from west of Carmel into their own school ... and two things would happen. One, Clay would probably be the better athletic program, and two, the people for whom "being from Carmel" means the most aren't sending their kids to "Carmel." 

Old-line Greyhounds wouldn't take kindly to them losing state championships to a school *within their own district.* 

Certainly community and administration is just a little embarrassed at 39 straight swimming titles in a row, right?

[foxbat]

1 hour ago, Muda69 said:

?  Lot and lots of Catholics?  WL is primarily children of parents who work at Purdue, normally not exactly a religious bunch. 

 

FRL, college bound, test scores, etc.

[Muda69]

1 hour ago, Robert said:

Wherever Haworth goes, schools merge.

 

Go Huskies.

[crimsonace1]

21 hours ago, 23andCounting said:

Certainly community and administration is just a little embarrassed at 39 straight swimming titles in a row, right?

Quite the opposite. They have JV swimmers who would be state qualifiers, but as long as they keep piling up the trophies, that's all that matters. 

[23andCounting]

4 hours ago, crimsonace1 said:

Quite the opposite. They have JV swimmers who would be state qualifiers, but as long as they keep piling up the trophies, that's all that matters. 

Some things are embarrassing, others not. If New Pal won ten in a row, that would be total respect and admiration. They do a good job of punching above their weight class. Carmel winning 39 straight with 5000 and thumping their chest about it is just arrogant. If Homestead had 5000 (hell, even 4000 kids, Carmel's swimming reign would be over. I'm sure there are some other programs that could say the same. 

[WestfieldRocks]

On 10/8/2025 at 1:12 PM, crimsonace1 said:

Even if Westfield does annex lands around Sheridan, most school district boundaries are based on township lines and existing boundaries, and are not/cannot be adjusted because the town's boundaries expand and cross said district lines. 

There are a number of places within Greenwood's town limits, for example, that are in Whiteland's school district (which wraps around Greenwood to the south and east). 

I don't see it happening, especially since the Town Of Sheridan recently annexed some of that land. The only thing that was brought up and is a dead deal was there was a landowner with land on the northwest corner of 31 and 38,. He was looking to sell for development. Some of that land is in Adams Township (Sheridan). Westfield was talking about annexing that into the city limits.