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The Fort Wayne Community Schools school corporation, known as FWCS for short, is the Fort Wayne, Indiana area public school district, and is the second largest in Indiana. It is comprised of six high schools, 11 middle schools, and over 30 elementary schools, and it served 31,815 students (about 3% of Indiana's K-12 population) in 2003-2004 [1]. FWCS's current superintendent is Dr. Wendy Robinson. The immediate past superintendent was Thomas Fowler-Finn, who is now the superintendent of the Cambridge, MA Schools. Nickname: The Summit City Official website: City of Fort Wayne Location Location in the state of Indiana, USA Government County Allen Mayor Graham Richard (D) Geographical characteristics Area Total 204. ...
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Administratively, FWCS is divided into several departments, including Technology, Transportation, Curriculum, Continuing Education, Food Services, and Communications. Area administrators oversee thirds each of the FWCS schools.
School Board
The FWCS Board of School Trustees serves as the district's governing and fiscal body, and its meetings are open to the public in the Grile Administrative Center and broadcast on local cable channel LTV-54.
The School Board approves the FWCS tax rate and any borrowing that will be paid off by property taxes.
Current FWCS board members include: Geoff Paddock; Jon Olinger, Kurt Walborne; Carol Coen, Steve Corona, Robert Armstrong, and Carl Johnson.
School Directory As well as offering public education during the day, FWCS offers continuing education classes and events that meet in its buildings in the evenings and on weekends.
High schools
North Side High School Established 1927.
Northrop High School Northrop High School[2] is situated in north-west Fort Wayne. Home to over 2,000 students, Northrop offers a great variety of classes, activities, and programs for its students in subjects from English to Calculus to showchoir. Its current principal is Mrs. Barbara Ahlersmeyer, who replaced the retiring Mr. Timon Kendall for the 2003-2004 school year.
Northrop has along with most of Indiana adopted a credit system called "Core 40", requiring 40 credits — four years of English, three years of Math and Social Studies and Science, and 10-12 elective credits, plus two semesters of Phys. Ed and a credit in Health Education. Northrop also offers a slightly more rigorous Academic Honors Diploma, which requires 47 credits, and a basic one that requires 40 credits like Core 40, but lowers the bar in the Core 40 six-credit subjects to just four credits.
Northrop currently operates on the "Block 4" school schedule, which divides the year into two terms and each term into two semesters. A semester is nine weeks, and four classes are scheduled per semester that meet every day. Teachers have one of the four periods free for "planning time."
FWCS used Northrop's architecture verbatim when they built Wayne High School, as one can tell from Wayne's website [3].
Traditions - Prom and semi-formal.
- The yearly Christmas talent show.
- A fall play and a spring musical.
Ex-traditions - MORP, the reverse PROM, where the girls ask the guys. Cancelled in 2004 due to low attendance. Students complained of administrators with flashlights.
- The yearly post-prom Cedar Point trip. This was cancelled in 2004 due to low attendance, amongst students blamed on excessive administrative policing and the long bus ride. Students began to choose driving in groups instead of taking the school-provided bus.
Notable alumni - Heather Headley, Broadway and R&B singer (ashamed of Fort Wayne).
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Snider High School MISSION STATEMENT The mission of R. Nelson Snider High School is to promote academic and intellectual growth, to facilitate the acquisition of life skills, and to encourage positive social interaction so that students and the community may thrive in an ever-changing environment. HISTORY The first high school built by Fort Wayne Community Schools in forty years, R. Nelson Snider High School, named for an outstanding educator, opened in the fall of 1964 with three hundred twenty-five sophomores, twenty faculty members, four administrators, and one secretary. In April of 1966, the students and staff moved into the present facility after having shared Lane Middle School. This building has been renovated twice since then, the latest having been completed in 1982. There is an area of ten acres of building on a forty-acre complex housing more than two thousand students in grades nine through twelve. Part of the complex includes five tennis courts, a freshman and junior varsity football game field, a softball field, a soccer field, and an all-weather track. There are sixty-nine classrooms, a metal and welding shop, a wood shop, a main gym, an auxiliary gym, a wrestling room, a wellness center, tiered lecture room, three darkrooms, a foreign language cafe, a complete television studio, an auditorium, science laboratories, a cafeteria seating over five hundred, a five hundred-car parking lot, a suite of guidance and athletic offices, a main office, a student services office, an attendance office, and a media center which encompasses approximately 16,000 books and periodicals, 1800 non-print media items, and a 32-station networked computer lab in addition to several stand-alone computer work stations with access to electronic data bases. In December 1995, the staff voted to restructure our educational day to the 4x4 block format. The 4x4 scheduling format at R. Nelson Snider High School has students taking just four classes every day. There is more time for instruction and learning, with less time used for getting to and from classes and for classroom management. This productive use of school time translates into potential for additional labs, field trips, interdisciplinary activities and intense focus on subject matter. - Principal: Stephen Simmons
- Asst. Principals:
- Michael Schnelker
- Mark Sherbondy
- Jacqueline French
- Mark Bailey
- 2005-2006
- Enrollment: 2,057
- Seniors: 458
- Juniors: 458
- Sophomores: 521
- Freshmen: 620
Notable alumni Roderick Kevin Rod Woodson (born March 10, 1965 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) was a professional American football player. ...
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Address 4600 Fairlawn Pass
Fort Wayne, IN 46815
http://snider.fwcs.k12.in.us/
South Side High School South Side High School opened its doors on September 11, 1922. During the 1996-1997 school year, the school celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary year as a secondary school. The class of 2005 will be the 83rd to graduate from South Side.
At the time South Side opened, it was the largest one-story school building in the United States. It was also one of the very first school buildings in the nation to use a series of ramps instead of stairs.
As the school population increased, additions to the original structure were made in the late 1930's, the late 1950's and in 1970-1973. The 1970-73 addition included several new classrooms, a new media center and a new auditorium. A new physical education facility was completed in January, 1981. In 1996, South Side completed a $39.5 million renovation, which created Fort Wayne's only olympic-sized swimming pool. South is now an academic gem in the FWCS crown.
South Side High School has been for over 60 years a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and is a Special First-Class Commissioned High School by order of the Indiana State Department of Public Instruction. In the spring of 2000, South Side received full accreditation in the Performance Based Accreditation system of the Department of Education.
From 1963 to 1966, from 1968 to 1974 and again from 1976 to the present, South Side has been privileged to be a member of the prestigious College Entrance Examination Board of New York City which serves the colleges and secondary schools of the nation. In 1982, South Side was elected to permanent membership in the College Board - one of only thirteen Indiana high schools at that time to be so honored.
Five principals have served the school in the past: Robert Harris, 1922 -1926; R. Nelson Snider, 1926 -1963; Jack E. Weicker, 1963 -1990; and Jennifer Manth, 1990 - 2001. Thomas Smith currently serves as the principal of South Side. Ninety-five individual staff members have served the school for twenty-five years or longer.
South Side High School has had as its philosophy since 1922 the idea that it is a school's task to help students acquire the knowledge and skills that will enable them to do better in those endeavors they pursue. As the school continues its second half century, this philosophy will enrich and strengthen the lives of all young people who leave South Side High School to take their places in the community, in the nation and in the world.
Notable alumni Shelley Long Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress. ...
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Wayne High School
Other Facilities
Middle schools - Blackhawk Middle School
- Geyer Middle School
- Jefferson Middle School
- Kekionga Middle School
- Lakeside Middle School
- Lane Middle School
- Memorial Park Middle School
- Miami Middle School
- Northwood Middle School
- Portage Middle School
- Shawnee Middle School
Elementary schools - Bunche Montessori Elementary School
- Levan Scott Academy Elementary School
- Lincoln Elementary School
- Lindley Elementary School
- Maplewood Elementary School
- Nebraska Elementary School
- Northcrest Elementary School
- Pleasant Center Elementary School
- Price Elementary School
- Shambaugh Elementary School
- South Wayne Elementary School
- St. Joseph Central Elementary School
- Study Elementary School
- Washington Center Elementary School
- Washington Elementary School
- Waynedale Elementary School
- Weisser Park Elementary School
- Whitney Young Early Childhood Center
Resources - Fort Wayne Community Schools Homepage [4]
- Indiana Department of Education corporation snapshot [5]
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