Background

North Central jr/sr high school is a jr./sr. high school on the outskirts of Farmersburg, Indiana

Farmersburg, Indiana

Farmersburg is a town in Curry Township, Sullivan County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,118 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area...

. The school celebrated its 50th year of service in 2007-08. It is one of 2 high schools and one of 6 schools in the Northeast school corporation of Sullivan County, IN.

North Central's mascot is the Thunderbirds, named for an old local mine, that was operating in nearby Farmersburg

Farmersburg, Indiana

Farmersburg is a town in Curry Township, Sullivan County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,118 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area...

 and Shelburn, Indiana

Shelburn, Indiana

Shelburn is a town in Curry Township, Sullivan County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,252 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Shelburn is located at ....

 at the time of the start of the school.

Extracurricular activities

North Central offers a number of Extracurricular activities before, after, and sometimes even during school hours. The junior high has activities such as a SADD club, a juniorBeta

National Beta Club

The National Beta Club is an organization for 5th-12th graders in the United States, recognizing academic achievement, leadership, character and service....

 club, tutoring, and a drama club. The Senior High offers many of the same activities such as a SADD club and a Beta club along with tutoring and drama, whose play this fall will be "The Clumsy Custard Horror Show and Ice Cream Clone Review", but also has some others such as weightlifting and a color guard.

Also the choir boosters sponsor a yearly play for students to try out for and perform in front of audience members after weeks of practice and training. The junior high choir is also starting a show choir to run in six week sessions to give the opportunity to kids in different sports to participate in their off-seasons.

North Central also has a yearly musical production put on by the choral and drama departments of the school with the cast consisting of students in the choral or drama programs. This years production will be Beauty And The Beast

Beauty and the Beast (musical)

Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...

.

North Central adopted a non-smoking procedure during summer break in 2008 so that smoking is prohibited on the school campus.

Harmony Electronic Gradebook

In the 2008-09 school year North Central began using a new electronic gradebook for all of the classes and parents can look at their children's grades online on the corporation's website by using a login and password sent the parents in the beginning of the seconds semester of classes and can check each classes assignments and look at the specific grades for the class. Teachers are being encouraged to keep the online grades up to date and starting in the fall of 2009 will be encouraged to put each nights homework assignments on the program so that the parents can see what the kids are supposed to be doing each night.

Athletics

North Central is a class A school in the Indiana High School Athletic Association

Indiana High School Athletic Association

The Indiana High School Athletic Association is the arbiter of interscholastic competition among public and private high schools in the State of Indiana. It monitors a system that divides athletically-competing high schools in Indiana based on the school's enrollment. The divisions, known as...

 or ISHAA that is part of the Tri-River

Tri-River Conference (IHSAA)

The Tri-River Conference, established around 1965, is a seven-member IHSAA-sanctioned conference located within Clay, Greene, Morgan, and Sullivan counties in Indiana. It is named for the southern Eel, White, and Wabash rivers which flow through the territory of the conference...

 conference. The sports in which the school participates, each ones coach, whether it is a fall, winter, or spring sport, and the current or last record of the team are shown in the following table (Note: Only Varsity teams will be included in the table):

North Central (Farmersburg) Athletics
Sport	Coach	Season	Record
Boys Football	Brian Crabtree	Fall	1-9
Girls Golf	Vicki Ficklin	Fall	Unknown
Boys Tennis	John Caton	Fall	Unknown
Girls Volleyball	Jacob Cummings	Fall	13-`2
Coed Cross Country	Jeff Ransford & Jessica Wayton	Fall	Unknown
Boys Basketball	Ryan Kamman	Winter	2-1
Girls Basketball	Gretchen Brown	Winter	5-2
Boys Golf	Ryan Kamman	Spring	Unknown
Boys Baseball	Darin Simpson	Spring	13-6
Girls Softball	Leela Gilam	Spring	Unknown
Coed Track	Jeff Ransford & Jessica Wayton	Spring	Unknown

School song

North Centrals fight song is an edited-version of the Notre Dame

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the football team of the University of Notre Dame. The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly.Notre Dame competes as an Independent at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level, and is a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series coalition. It is an...

fight song.

"North Central High Fight Song Lyrics"

Cheer, Cheer, for North Central High!

We'll never falter. We'll never die!

If you Thunderbirds Go, Fight, Win!

We'll have a victory in the end!

Ba Da Da!

Wave your banner carry them high!

We'll always fight for our green and white!

We'll back central all the way!

Fight for North Central High!

"Cheerleaders"

Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds, Fight, Fight, Fight!

Thunderbirds, Thunderbirds, Win Tonight!

Statistics

These are some statistics of the school as off of the Indian Department of Eductation website

Student Migration

• 2006-07 to 2007-08

• Farmersburg Elementary School 41 Pupils
• Shelburn Elementary School 28 Pupils
• Hymera Elementary School 17 Pupils
• Honey Creek Middle School 5 Pupils

Ethnicity

• 2007-08

• 96.7% White 502 Pupils
• 1.7% Multi-Racial 9 Pupils
• 0.8% Hispanic 4 Pupils
• 0.6% Native American 3 Pupils
• 0.2% Asian 1 Pupil
• 0.0% Black 0 Pupils

Free Lunch

• 2007-08

• Paid Lunch 52.2% 271 Pupils
• Reduced Lunch 14.8% 77 Pupils
• Free Lunch 32.9% 171 Pupils

Attendance Rate

• Preliminary Data 2007-08

• State Average 95.9%

• Total 95.1%

• Male 95.2%

• Female 95.0%

• Multi-Racial 95.2%

• White 95.2%

English/LA

• 7th Grade - 77 Pupils Tested,0% Pass Plus 0 Pupils, 49% Passed 38 Pupils, 51% Failed 39 Pupils
• 8th Grade - 100 Pupils Tested, 10% Pass Plus 10 Pupils, 53% Passed 53 Pupils, 36% Failed 36 Pupils, 1% Undetermined 1 Pupil
• 9th Grade - Not Tested In Fall Of 2008
• 10th Grade - 89 Pupils Tesed, 0% Pass Plus 0 Pupils, 62% Passed 55 Pupils, 36% Failed 32 Pupils, 2% Undetermined 2 Pupils

Mathematics

• 7th Grade - 77 Pupils Tested, 10% Pass Plus 8 Pupils, 68% Passed 52 Pupils, 21% Failed 16 Pupils, 1% Undetermined 1 Pupil
• 8th Grade - 100 Pupils Tested, 12% Pass Plus 12 Pupils, 53% Passed 53 Pupils, 35% Failed 35 Pupils,
• 9th Grade - Not Tested In Fall Of 2008
• 10th Grade - 89 Pupils Tested, 2% Pass Plus 2 Pupils, 54% Passed 48 Pupils, 44% Failed 39 Pupils,

Average Scores

• Writing 473
• Mathematics 494
• Critical Reading 470
• Composite Score College-Bound Seniors(Verbal & Math) 964

Graduation Rate

• 2006-07

• 87.5% of Pupils
• 63 Pupils
• 28.6% Honors Grads 18 Pupils
• 34.9% Core 40 Only 22 Pupils
• 36.5% Regular Grads 23 Pupils
• 73% Pursuing College Education 46 Pupils

Other

• 2006-07 or 2007-08

• 7% Taking An Advanced Placement Test
• 10% Of Seniors Taking An ACT Exam
• 23.6 ACT Composite Score