Brumfield Elementary School

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Brumfield Elementary School is an elementary school located in Princeton, Indiana. The school was opened in 1976 with James Kolb as principal; its current principal is Mary Ann O'Neal. It is the first school to have earned the national Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence more than once, first during the 1987-1988 school year and then again during the 1991-1992 school year.

[edit] History

Brumfield Elementary School was opened in 1976 to relieve pressure on the other two elementary schools in the North Gibson School Corporation, Lowell Bicentennial School and the aging Baldwin Heights Elementary School.

After the 1994-1995 school year, longtime principal James Kolb resigned; he is now the Gibson County Treasurer. He was replaced by Irie Horrall, former principal at Baldwin Heights Elementary.

For the 1996-1997 school year, the school was reorganized as part of a very controversial plan to close Baldwin Heights Elementary, move kindergarteners through second graders to both Lowell School and the "Early Learning Center" set up in an unused area of Princeton Community High School, and use Brumfield for third through fifth grades. That same year, Irie Horrall retired and was replaced by Dan Gilbert.