Northern Wells Community School is the school district that serves extreme Northern Wells County, Indiana.
Contents
- Map of Northern Wells Community Schools IN USA
- Norwell High School
- Norwell Middle School
- Ossian Elementary School
- Lancaster Central Elementary School
- Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church School
- Recent renovations
- References
Map of Northern Wells Community Schools, IN, USA
Northern Wells consists five schools: Norwell High School. Norwell Middle School, Lancaster Central Elementary School, Ossian Elementary School, and Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School.
NWCS serves the towns of Ossian, Uniondale, Tocsin, Zanesville, Markle and the extreme southern outskirts of the town of Bluffton.
The district was formed after the 1967 consolidation of six township schools, with four original schools: OES, LCES, NMS, and NHS in 1967.
Norwell High School
Norwell High School is at the intersection of US Highway 224 and Norwell Road in rural Ossian, Indiana.
Features of the campus include a football field, baseball diamond, tennis courts, track and field, and over two acres of open grass for soccer.
Norwell High School has won the state championship for the best band performance in the US State of Indiana at Indianapolis for the last five years.
During the Christmas season of 2013, Norwell High School's Marching Band & Show Choir students went to Walt Disney World in Lake Beuna Vista, Florida for a marching band and choir performance.
The administrative staff of Norwell High School is as follows.
Norwell Middle School
The administrative staff of Norwell Middle School is as follows.
Ossian Elementary School
Ossian Elementary School currently stands where the old Ossian High School was before Northern Wells' consolidated all six township schools.
The administrative staff of Ossian Elementary School is as follows.
Lancaster Central Elementary School
Lancaster Central Elementary School is located in rural Bluffton, Indiana, on Jackson Street near Indiana Highway 1.
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School is a private school located on the eastern outskirts of Ossian.
Recent renovations
Over the last several years, Northern Wells Community Schools superintendents tried to make it so that the Norwell High School campus could be fully renovated, as the school needed repairs and revitalization.
In the spring of 2013, residents in the Northern Wells Community Schools district finally approved the US$5,400 referendum to renovate and revitalize the Norwell High School campus.
In addition to renovating the Norwell High School campus, the district added new electronic signs to four of Northern Wells' five main schools.
Thee renovations of the high school included a new cafeteria, a better air conditioning, heating and ventilation system, a new school office, 15 new school buses, and iPad mobile devices.