Connersville High School
| Connersville High School | |
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100 Spartan Drive Connersville, Indiana, Fayette County 47331 USA |
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| Coordinates | 39°38′11″N 85°09′39″W / 39.636329°N 85.160944°WCoordinates: 39°38′11″N 85°09′39″W / 39.636329°N 85.160944°W |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1875 |
| School district | Fayette County School Corporation |
| Principal | Randal Judd |
| Faculty | 62 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 1,101 |
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| Athletics conference | Eastern Indiana Athletic Conference |
| Mascot | Spartans |
| Website | Official Website |
Connersville High School is the only high school in Fayette County, Indiana. Connersville High School is located in Connersville, Indiana.
Administrative Staff:
Guidance Staff:
Teaching Staff: 72% have at least a master's degree. The faculty averages 17.6 years of experience.
Enrollment in 2012-13: 1063
Male: 558, Female: 505
School Year: 185 days, 2 semesters
Accreditations: AdvancEd
Minimum graduation requirements:
Total number of credits needed to graduate: 69.
Connersville High School was the first (and remains the only) consolidated high school in the county, opening in fall of 1875, in the building that later became Connersville Junior High School North, in Connersville. The first graduating class was in 1878, nine persons. The high school was later moved to a building further north in the 1960s, and still later to a campus in west Connersville where it resides today. The new High School has had the same buildings and open concept since the day it opened. Each of the buildings is named after one of the townships in Fayette County. Connersville High School had the first public school marching band in the United States. Rushville gave Connersville the name Ikmiks, but that was an unofficial nickname, and in 1924 Connersville officially changed the name to the Spartans.
In 1969, Connersville High School/Vocational School opened its doors nearby on Ranch Road.
Connersville High school offers a wide variety of curriculum and diploma choices. There are 3 different diplomas currently offered: Academic Honors diploma, Technical Honors diploma, and the Core 40 diploma. Each diploma has a wide variety of requirements to receive the diploma of your choice. The Academic diploma requires 3 years of a foreign language while the technical honor diploma has an internship requirement and the Core 40 diploma just has the basic classes needed to get your High school diploma. The different types of diplomas can affect your chances of getting more scholarships and getting into various colleges.
The school holds to a block seven schedule, with periods that last around an average of fifty minutes each, and a period of Student Resource Time (SRT) on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. SRT lasts thirty minutes in the student's third period classroom and is meant for reading, homework and, if the teacher permits, talking to other students quietly. This time can also be used to go to another room to get help from other teachers, or for club activities. With a moderately sized campus, the students have five minutes to roam to their lockers if they need to, and to get to their next class. During this passing period there is a minute bell, which indicates that all students have one final minute to get within their next period class. The lunch session of the day is separated within the fourth period class. There are three lunches: A (first), B (split), and C (last), of a duration around thirty minutes each. If you have A lunch, after SRT students will go straight to the cafeteria. Once lunch is over, you will head to your fourth period class. As the bell ending the first lunch session chimes, the split lunch has then started, and so on.
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