North Knox School Corporation


North Knox School Corporation is a school district in Knox County, Indiana. The district administration is in Widner Township, with a Bicknell postal address.
It is made up of the following townships: Busseron, Vigo, Washington, and Widner. The district includes the municipalities of Bicknell, Bruceville, Edwardsport, Oaktown, and Sandborn, and the census-designated places of Emison, Freelandville, Ragsdale, and Westphalia.

History

In 1961 there was a petition to try to create the school district.
The North Knox School Corp. came into existence in school year 1963–64, with the consolidation of all the smaller northern Knox County high schools to one central location. Those small-town high schools were located at Bicknell, Freelandville, Bruceville, Oaktown, Edwardsport, Sandborn, Westphalia and Emison. At that time, grades 1-8 remained at the smaller locations, with the exception of Edwardsport students, who were transferred to Freelandville School.
In 1966 the U.S. Office of Education gave a $40,251 grant to fund a reading improvement program for the district.

Schools

The district formerly operated North Knox East Elementary and Junior High School in Edwardsport. The district created it in the former Edwardsport High School, which had been established in 1956. In 2011 the school closed. In 2015 the State of Indiana allowed the district to sell the school. North Knox decided to sell the building after it no longer needed to use the gymnasium facilities as a new auxiliary gym had opened in the district's junior and senior high school. In 2017 the North Knox East building had not yet been sold.