New Palestine High School - New Palestine, Indiana/IN

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New Palestine High School

Po Box 448, New Palestine, IN, 46163-0448 -

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Definition of Terms

New Palestine High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Hancock County, IN

Students & Faculty

Total Students

999 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

43 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 266 students

Grade 10 - 271 students

Grade 11 - 227 students

Grade 12 - 235 students

This School

(IN) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:23

1:18

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(IN) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	n/a	1%
% Hispanic	1%	3%
% Black	1%	7%
% White	98%	86%

Additional Student Information

This School

(IN) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

19%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(IN) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Southern Hancock County Com Corp School District

This School's Agency

(IN) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	5	4
Number of Students Managed	3,233 students	1,999 students
District Total Revenue	$33,885,000	$21,720,000
District Expenditure	$28,374,000	$20,017,000
District Revenue / Student	$10,481	$10,865
District Expenditure / Student	$8,776	$10,014
District Graduation Rates	96%	95%

Theater productions bloom at 3 local high schools (The Indianapolis Star)
posted on March 11, 2010 at 08:10:08 am
High school theater is still "going strong" with several opportunities this week to see young thespians in musical and dramatic productions.
Red Devil swimmers train to earn sectional payback (Palladium-Item)
posted on February 2, 2010 at 12:09:11 pm
The Red Devils are ready to reclaim the sectional throne.
Raymond earns Top VIII award (The Indianapolis Star)
posted on January 19, 2010 at 07:09:12 am
New Palestine High School graduate Kent Raymond, a Division II All-American at Wheaton (Ill.) College last season, was honored with the NCAA's Top VIII award at the group's convention in Atlanta last week.
New Pal grad Raymond earns NCAA honor (The Indianapolis Star)
posted on January 18, 2010 at 08:18:35 pm
New Palestine High School graduate Kent Raymond was award the NCAA's Top VIII award at the group's convention in Atlanta last week. The award honors eight NCAA athletes and students who have recently graduated for excellence on the playing field and classroom and contributions in the com- munity. Raymond was a Division II all-American at Wheaton (Ill.) College and his eli- gibility ended after ...
Wrestlers finish sixth at New Palestine (Rushville Republican)
posted on January 12, 2010 at 01:33:49 pm
Eight teams converged on New Palestine High School Saturday for the annual wrestling invitational. The host Dragons were joined by Beech Grove, Columbia City, East Central, Martinsville, Mt. Vernon, Roncalli and Rushville.

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New Palestine High School is a rural secondary school (grades 9-13) located in the middle of no where. Managed by the Community School Corporation of Southern Hancock County, it currently serves 1,035 students, employs 73 faculty members, and is failing horribly. The school has received two out of five stars the last six years in a row. That number is expected to drop to one star this year due to the loss of all janitorial staff members.
Athletics
New Palestine High School is part of the Hoosier Heritage Conference and offers soccer, tennis, cross country, football, golf, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, baseball, softball, track and field, quidditch, spell bowl, croquet, cricket, ultimate frisbee, badminton, corn husking, chess, bull riding, mechanical bull riding, pickle ball, high speed telegraphy, haggis hurling, field hockey, curling, basket weaving, underwater basket weaving, water polo, pumpkin chunking and knitting.
Dragons
Underneath the town
It is a commonly held belief among the residents of New Palestine, Indiana that there are several colonies of dragons living beneath the town. The myth traces its origins back to the book titled There Are Dragons Underneath New Palestine by best selling author R. Rutherton. The book was published in 1876. Rutherton was institutionalized shortly after the release of his book, but the citizens of New Palestine, Indiana continued in their unwavering support of Rutherton's seemingly idiotic ideas.
Epic battle
On October 15, 1995, over 100 student's lives were lost in the Great Dragon Fire at New Palestine High School. The fire was started when a large Black Dragon Behemoth burst through the High School's cafeteria floor. The dragon violently spewed flame across the cafeteria until the student body banded together and smote the foul beast with the Sword of Lost Light. Once the dragon was defeated, the body was used to feed the students of the high school for the following 3 weeks.
Common misconception
There is no connection between the existence of the dragon colonies and the school's mascot -- a red dragon. See Ku Klux Klan.
2005 Tornado
Tornado Gomer of the 2005 Midwestern tornado season was one of the five worst tornadoes, in the history of the United States. The Mayor of New Palestine, Stuart Scott, was quoted as saying, "Hurricane Katrina ain't got nothing on this mother-f-----."
Tornado Gomer formed over Denton Trace on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Meadow Lake Village as a moderate Category 1 wormhole, causing some deaths and time-travel related anomalies before strengthening rapidly in Cedar Creek Estates. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 Godzilla-like creature on the morning of Monday, August 29 on the southeast corner of New Palestine High School. It caused severe destruction all the way from one cornfield to another cornfield, much of it due to the Glomerella graminicola. The most severe loss of life and property damage occurred at the Frosty Boy Drive In, which flooded as the employees left the sink running and filled the street, in many cases delaying people by minutes.
Controversy
Senior prank gone awry
On April 3, 2001, fifteen high school seniors made headlines in the New Palestine Reporter when they snuck into the high school's utility tunnels, apparently planning an elaborate senior prank involving 100 miniature pigs. The pigs had other ideas and devoured the students.
Alcoholic teenagers
The Class of 2005 once started a riot because Frosty Boy (a local ice cream parlor) would not serve alcohol to the students after school. When Mr. Hannah (the vice principal) got on a loud speaker to try and calm the students, he was violently ripped into precisely four pieces and fed to the pigs (the best way to get rid of a body - thank you Snatch). Then, we graduated and went to college. Now we edit Wikipedia pages about our school... we're 23 and really mature.
A week off for fire
Fire Week 2007 leaves school in a pile of ashes as an overhead projector bursts into flames. No students were hurt in the fire, however in an ironic turn of events the school's cockroach problem was eliminated.
Dragons
You cannot silence the truth. There are DRAGONS underneath New Palestine, and it is a safety hazard to deny it. The good people of New Palestine have a right to know what kind of danger their lives are in.
External links
NPHS
PublicSchoolReview
New Palestine Sports
New Pal Football
See also
List of high schools in Indiana
Hoosier Heritage Conference

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