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52025 GUMWOOD ROAD · THE SCHOOL c. 1971–2026
At 52025 Gumwood Road, a church and a school share one address and one ground: Grace Church, carried in the current directories at that address as a congregation serving the Granger community; and Granger Christian School, the kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade college-preparatory school the Story of Granger section counts among the place's private schools, accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. The school's course closed within this build's own year, and the closing is a press-of-record fact: on July 23, 2026, the South Bend Tribune reported that Granger Christian School would close its doors ahead of the 2026–27 school year, after fifty-five years — a founding, by arithmetic the school did not contest, about 1971 — its recently hired principal's resignation having prompted other administrators to leave, the school turning to placing its students and forming a committee to "pursue future Christian education in the facility, as well as other community-related activities." The school's own site carries the same word in its own form: "Granger Christian School will be closed for the 2026–2027 school year." The church's course is thinner in the record than the school's: the shared address is the documented tie between them, and Grace Church's founding date and the exact form of its relation to the school — whether the school was the church's own ministry or a tenant of its ground — are printed as named gaps, settler: the congregation's own record. The entry's settled facts are the seat, the school, and the closing: a Gumwood Road congregation whose school taught two generations of Granger children and ended in the summer of 2026.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune, July 23, 2026 — "Granger Christian School announces closure before upcoming school year": the closure ahead of 2026–27 after 55 years, the principal's resignation, and the committee for the facility's future.
- Granger Christian School, the school's own record (grangerchristian.org) — the closure notice for the 2026–2027 school year; 52025 Gumwood Rd, Granger.
- Current directory listings — Grace Church, 52025 Gumwood Rd, Granger, IN 46530, at the school's address.
- School-directory profiles — Granger Christian School: K–12 college preparatory, ACSI-accredited, classical-model transition.