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What’s so great about Randolph Central Schools?

Great Elementary Schools

· Randolph Central is home to Randolph County’s only neighborhood-based elementary schools, allowing students to attend school closer to home in smaller schools, all under 300 in enrollment.

· All kindergarten classes are full-day programs.

· Deerfield Elementary School was named a Title-I Top Ten School by the Indiana Department of Education in 2008.

· Baker Elementary School is a primary school, focusing entirely on early grade education.

· Willard Elementary School is home to an outstanding gifted and talented program.

· All Randolph Central elementary schools are affiliated with CLASS, a professional development model that promotes brain-compatible learning methods.

· Parent-teacher organizations are integral parts of school success in all schools.

A Great Middle School

· Lee L. Driver Middle School is one of only a few middle schools in East Central Indiana to use teaming, helping students to effectively transition from elementary school to high school.

· Driver Middle School is one of the pioneer CLASS schools in Indiana.

· Driver Middle School’s curriculum includes separate reading and writing classes taught in writing laboratories, each equipped with thirty computers.

· Driver Middle School hosts many events to connect students with the community. These include a spring musical, grandparents/pioneer day, Veterans’ Day, and others.

· Middle School students can participate in any number of eleven athletic teams, as well as instrumental and choral music. There are many other extracurricular clubs, as well.

A Great High School

· Winchester Community High School has been named a “Best Buy School” and “Honor Roll School” for each of the last six years by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

· Winchester Community High School has the broadest curriculum of any high school in Randolph County, including physics, advanced placement courses in English, calculus, environmental science, and United States history, college credit English, two world languages, visual arts, instrumental and choral music, family and consumer sciences, computer assisted drafting and design, technology education, and vocational agriculture.

· At Winchester Community High School, students may participate in many extracurricular activities. These include FCCLA, National Honor Society, academic superbowl teams, FFA, Model Legislature, earth club, art club, STAND, and others.

· Each year, for more than forty years, Winchester Community High School has presented highly-acclaimed Broadway musicals in the school’s 1000 seat auditorium, one of the largest in the area.

· Winchester Community High School’s band, the Force, includes Randolph County’s only marching band program.

· Winchester Community High School offers fifteen IHSAA sports. Randolph Central is home to all four of Randolph County’s IHSAA mental attitude award winners: three in boys’ basketball and one in volleyball. In recent years, teams have won three semi-states and six regionals in boys’ basketball as well as a regional in volleyball. The girls’ basketball program has also been very successful, and cheerleading has won two state championships. Winchester’s football program was the first in Randolph County, starting in 1946. Winchester’s wrestling program in 2009 produced East Central Indiana’s only individual state champion in the last decade.

A Great School District

· Randolph Central has the lowest tax rate of any school corporation in Randolph County.

· Randolph Central has the only full-time curriculum director in Randolph County, working to ensure that students at all levels have many opportunities for success.

· Randolph Central is headquartered in Winchester, Randolph County’s largest city with many opportunities for family and community life, including a great public library, the YMCA, an airport, a movie theatre, the area’s only drive-in movie theatre, a local museum, a great golf course, numerous churches, numerous restaurants, and other cultural attractions.

· Randolph Central’s educational programs are data-driven, using planned assessment tools to direct teacher instruction and student learning.

· Randolph Central’s community is very supportive of our schools, our teachers, and our teams.