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District North Gibson School Corporation Headquarters Princeton, Indiana, United States | ||
Brumfield Elementary School is an elementary school located near Princeton Community High School in Princeton, Indiana, USA and is part of the North Gibson School Corporation. The school was opened in 1976 and the current principal is Mary Ann O'Neal. The sports teams are known as the 'Little Tigers'. Brumfield Elementary is a double Blue Ribbon school.
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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 ageing and now decommissioned Baldwin Heights Elementary School. The principal was James Kolb.
After the 1994-1995 school year, 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 reorganised as part of a very controversial plan to close Baldwin Heights Elementary, move kindergarten through second grade 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.
Options for a further reorganisation were considered in early 2008.
Blue Ribbon school
Brumfield Elementary has been awarded the national Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence by the United States Department of Education twice, first during the 1987-1988 school year and then again during the 1991-1992 school year. This is the highest award that can be given to a US school.