North Central High School (Farmersburg, Indiana)

North Central Jr./Sr. High School
Address
910 E. Co. Rd. 975 N.
Farmersburg, Indiana, Indiana, 47850
United States
Information
Type Public high school
Motto "We are one."
Established 1957-1958
Locale Medium Town
Principal Mr. Dunning
Faculty 29 certified teachers, 2 administrators, 3 certified non-teaching positions
Grades 7-12
Enrollment 525[1]  (2008-2009)
Athletics basketball, football, tennis, golf, track, cross country, baseball, and softball
Mascot Thunderbird

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Background

North Central jr/sr high school is a jr./sr. high school on the outskirts of Farmersburg, Indiana. The school celebrated its 50th year of service in 2007-08. It is one of 2 high schools and one of 6 schools in the Northeast school corporation of Sullivan County, IN.

North Central's mascot is the Thunderbirds, named for an old local mine, that was operating in nearby Farmersburg and Shelburn, Indiana at the time of the start of the school.

Extracurricular activities

North Central offers a number of Extracurricular activities before, after, and sometimes even during school hours. The junior high has activities such as a SADD club, a juniorBeta club, tutoring, and a drama club. The Senior High offers many of the same activities such as a SADD club and a Beta club along with tutoring and drama, whose play this fall will be "The Clumsy Custard Horror Show and Ice Cream Clone Review", but also has some others such as weightlifting and a color guard.

Also the choir boosters sponsor a yearly play for students to try out for and perform in front of audience members after weeks of practice and training. The junior high choir is also starting a show choir to run in six week sessions to give the opportunity to kids in different sports to participate in their off-seasons.

North Central also has a yearly musical production put on by the choral and drama departments of the school with the cast consisting of students in the choral or drama programs. This years production will be Beauty And The Beast.

North Central adopted a non-smoking procedure during summer break in 2008 so that smoking is prohibited on the school campus.

Harmony Electronic Gradebook

In the 2008-09 school year North Central began using a new electronic gradebook for all of the classes and parents can look at their children's grades online on the corporation's website by using a login and password sent the parents in the beginning of the seconds semester of classes and can check each classes assignments and look at the specific grades for the class. Teachers are being encouraged to keep the online grades up to date and starting in the fall of 2009 will be encouraged to put each nights homework assignments on the program so that the parents can see what the kids are supposed to be doing each night.

Athletics

North Central is a class A school in the Indiana High School Athletic Association or ISHAA that is part of the Tri-River conference. The sports in which the school participates, each ones coach, whether it is a fall, winter, or spring sport, and the current or last record of the team are shown in the following table (Note: Only Varsity teams will be included in the table):

North Central (Farmersburg) Athletics
Sport Coach Season Record
Boys Football Brian Crabtree Fall 1-9
Girls Golf Vicki Ficklin Fall Unknown
Boys Tennis John Caton Fall Unknown
Girls Volleyball Jacob Cummings Fall 13-`2
Coed Cross Country Jeff Ransford & Jessica Wayton Fall Unknown
Boys Basketball Ryan Kamman Winter 2-1
Girls Basketball Gretchen Brown Winter 5-2
Boys Golf Ryan Kamman Spring Unknown
Boys Baseball Darin Simpson Spring 13-6
Girls Softball Leela Gilam Spring Unknown
Coed Track Jeff Ransford & Jessica Wayton Spring Unknown

School song

North Centrals fight song is an edited-version of the Notre Dame fight song.

"North Central High Fight Song Lyrics"
Cheer, Cheer, for North Central High!
We'll never falter. We'll never die!
If you Thunderbirds Go, Fight, Win!
We'll have a victory in the end!
Ba Da Da!
Wave your banner carry them high!
We'll always fight for our green and white!
We'll back central all the way!
Fight for North Central High!
"Cheerleaders"
Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds, Fight, Fight, Fight!
Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds, Win Tonight!

Statistics

These are some statistics of the school as off of the Indian Department of Eductation website

Student Migration

Ethnicity

Free Lunch

Attendance Rate

ISTEP Results

English/LA

Mathematics

SAT

Average Scores

Graduation Rate

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