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Paul Harding High School
Paul Harding High School was a High school located on the southeast side of Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Harding was a part of East Allen County Schools system located in Allen County, Indiana.
On September 21, 2010, Superintendent Karyle Green presented a redesign plan at the meeting of the EACS school board. The plan was presented as a way for the school district to reduce expenses, respond to reduced student enrollment, and revise the academic opportunities provided to the students. As part of that plan, it was announced that Harding High School and seven elementary schools in the district would be closed at the end of the 2010–2011 school year. Non-graduating Harding students would be distributed among the four remaining district high schools for the fall of 2011. At the same time, the plan stated that Harding would be reopened as a magnet school, the Paul Harding College and Career Academy, serving the 7th and 8th grade students that currently attend the district's Prince Chapman Academy. Beginning with the 2012–2013 school year, an additional grade would be added yearly so that the student body will ultimately include grades 7–12.
On October 5, 2010, the school board approved the plan by a 6–1 vote, and June 10, 2011, saw Paul Harding High School close its doors as a district high school.
In recent years, Harding struggled with test scores, graduation rates and other marks of academic achievement. At the time of its closing, the school was in its fifth year on state academic probation. Had the school not closed, it could have faced state intervention, including a possible takeover, if assessment scores did not improve.
In 1965, Ball State University conducted a study for the newly formed East Allen County School Corporation. The study was made to determine the present and future school building needs of the corporation.
The study team advised the school corporation that a new high school should be constructed in the southeast portion of property owned by the school corporation. On March 31, 1969, the board of school trustees commissioned the architectural firm of Schenkel & Shultz to begin plans for the construction of this high school.
A committee of teachers was formed to study the educational needs of the community and to develop a set of educational specifications to meet these educational needs. Dr. Merle Strom and Dr. Paul Nesper of Ball State University worked with the educational specifications committee to assist in development of plans for the new school. The educational specifications were turned over to the architect, and the new school building was designed to meet these specifications.
A school building corporation was formed in accordance with the statutes of the state of Indiana, to finance the construction of this new school. The building is constructed on a 97-acre (390,000 m2) site on Wayne Trace, between Paulding Road and Tillman Road. It serves the student population in the southeast portion of Adams Township who are in grades 9 through 12.
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Paul Harding High School
Paul Harding High School was a High school located on the southeast side of Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Harding was a part of East Allen County Schools system located in Allen County, Indiana.
On September 21, 2010, Superintendent Karyle Green presented a redesign plan at the meeting of the EACS school board. The plan was presented as a way for the school district to reduce expenses, respond to reduced student enrollment, and revise the academic opportunities provided to the students. As part of that plan, it was announced that Harding High School and seven elementary schools in the district would be closed at the end of the 2010–2011 school year. Non-graduating Harding students would be distributed among the four remaining district high schools for the fall of 2011. At the same time, the plan stated that Harding would be reopened as a magnet school, the Paul Harding College and Career Academy, serving the 7th and 8th grade students that currently attend the district's Prince Chapman Academy. Beginning with the 2012–2013 school year, an additional grade would be added yearly so that the student body will ultimately include grades 7–12.
On October 5, 2010, the school board approved the plan by a 6–1 vote, and June 10, 2011, saw Paul Harding High School close its doors as a district high school.
In recent years, Harding struggled with test scores, graduation rates and other marks of academic achievement. At the time of its closing, the school was in its fifth year on state academic probation. Had the school not closed, it could have faced state intervention, including a possible takeover, if assessment scores did not improve.
In 1965, Ball State University conducted a study for the newly formed East Allen County School Corporation. The study was made to determine the present and future school building needs of the corporation.
The study team advised the school corporation that a new high school should be constructed in the southeast portion of property owned by the school corporation. On March 31, 1969, the board of school trustees commissioned the architectural firm of Schenkel & Shultz to begin plans for the construction of this high school.
A committee of teachers was formed to study the educational needs of the community and to develop a set of educational specifications to meet these educational needs. Dr. Merle Strom and Dr. Paul Nesper of Ball State University worked with the educational specifications committee to assist in development of plans for the new school. The educational specifications were turned over to the architect, and the new school building was designed to meet these specifications.
A school building corporation was formed in accordance with the statutes of the state of Indiana, to finance the construction of this new school. The building is constructed on a 97-acre (390,000 m2) site on Wayne Trace, between Paulding Road and Tillman Road. It serves the student population in the southeast portion of Adams Township who are in grades 9 through 12.