Whitko HS named 'Best Buy'
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
PIERCETON - School board meetings give administrators a chance to highlight the good things happening at their schools.
Monday, Whitko Community School Corp. Board of School Trustees heard much "good news," including Whitko High School being recognized as a "Best Buy" school by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
A school is named a best buy if it had an above-median quality index of 74.4684 or higher and expenditures below the statewide median of $5,648.96 per student. Whitko received a quality index of 69.1344, with expenditures of $4,891.30 per student.
Schools are alphabetical, not ranked, and this year 119 out of Indiana's 392 public high schools made the list.
The 2003 Best Buys report is available online at www.indianachamber.com
Whitko Schools received its accreditation from the state board of education, Superintendent Dr. Jeff Hendrix said. The next review year will be 2005-06.
Pierceton Elementary School student council has been recognized as an honor council for the second year in a row, according to sponsor Rhonda Graney. To be an honor council, the students have to perform service projects in seven areas and keep a scrapbook. As part of one of their service projects, students raised $2,800 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
Four WHS students are among the semifinalists for National Merit awards for the 2003-04 school year. The four juniors are Ben Reuter, Spenser Mize, Clay Mishler and Leah Winger. WHS Principal Jim Suding said the students' scores on the PSAT qualified them to advance in the National Merit Scholarship competition. About 1.2 million students take the PSAT every year, but only 50,000 students make the first round of cuts, representing less than 5 percent of all tested. At the least, the four Whitko students will be recognized as commended scholars. The next step of advancement would be recognition as a semi-finalist.
Another WHS student - senior Matt Metzger - has been awarded a Lilly Scholarship. The scholarship allows Metzger to attend any public or private university in Indiana. It pays his tuition, room and board and additional expenses.
Suding also reported that 22 juniors and eight seniors were inducted into the Whitko chapter of the National Honor Society last Wednesday. The number more than doubles the current NHS membership.
The board also accepted a $500 donation from the Syracuse Knights of Columbus for special education equipment.
At the March blood drive at WHS, sponsored by the student council, students donated 67 units of blood, two more than its previous record.
And finally, former Whitko graduate Stephanie Warner was the Purdue University Outstanding Female Student at a special awards presentation recently.
Whitko School board members are chairman Dave Tranter, E. Marie Trump, Hal Trump, Michael Braddock and Pete Mitchell. Their next regular meeting is at Whitko Middle School May 17 at 7:30 p.m. A public tour of WMS begins at 6:45 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]
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PIERCETON - School board meetings give administrators a chance to highlight the good things happening at their schools.
Monday, Whitko Community School Corp. Board of School Trustees heard much "good news," including Whitko High School being recognized as a "Best Buy" school by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
A school is named a best buy if it had an above-median quality index of 74.4684 or higher and expenditures below the statewide median of $5,648.96 per student. Whitko received a quality index of 69.1344, with expenditures of $4,891.30 per student.
Schools are alphabetical, not ranked, and this year 119 out of Indiana's 392 public high schools made the list.
The 2003 Best Buys report is available online at www.indianachamber.com
Whitko Schools received its accreditation from the state board of education, Superintendent Dr. Jeff Hendrix said. The next review year will be 2005-06.
Pierceton Elementary School student council has been recognized as an honor council for the second year in a row, according to sponsor Rhonda Graney. To be an honor council, the students have to perform service projects in seven areas and keep a scrapbook. As part of one of their service projects, students raised $2,800 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
Four WHS students are among the semifinalists for National Merit awards for the 2003-04 school year. The four juniors are Ben Reuter, Spenser Mize, Clay Mishler and Leah Winger. WHS Principal Jim Suding said the students' scores on the PSAT qualified them to advance in the National Merit Scholarship competition. About 1.2 million students take the PSAT every year, but only 50,000 students make the first round of cuts, representing less than 5 percent of all tested. At the least, the four Whitko students will be recognized as commended scholars. The next step of advancement would be recognition as a semi-finalist.
Another WHS student - senior Matt Metzger - has been awarded a Lilly Scholarship. The scholarship allows Metzger to attend any public or private university in Indiana. It pays his tuition, room and board and additional expenses.
Suding also reported that 22 juniors and eight seniors were inducted into the Whitko chapter of the National Honor Society last Wednesday. The number more than doubles the current NHS membership.
The board also accepted a $500 donation from the Syracuse Knights of Columbus for special education equipment.
At the March blood drive at WHS, sponsored by the student council, students donated 67 units of blood, two more than its previous record.
And finally, former Whitko graduate Stephanie Warner was the Purdue University Outstanding Female Student at a special awards presentation recently.
Whitko School board members are chairman Dave Tranter, E. Marie Trump, Hal Trump, Michael Braddock and Pete Mitchell. Their next regular meeting is at Whitko Middle School May 17 at 7:30 p.m. A public tour of WMS begins at 6:45 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]