Discovery Middle School: the CDP's only middle school

1996–present · 10050 Brummitt Road

Discovery is the middle school the whole eastern half of Granger funnels through: completed in the summer of 1996 on the Brummitt Road campus it shares with Horizon Elementary, it welcomed its first student body for the 1996-97 school year, and it serves the families of Mary Frank, Horizon, and Northpoint elementary schools — three of the CDP's four PHM elementaries, Prairie Vista's children going west to Schmucker instead. Its teams are the Archers, in dark green and old gold with burgundy trim, under the school's AIM standard — attitude, integrity, make a difference. The school the district built for the growth decades became the most decorated building on this ground: Discovery was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2006 and again in 2013, an Indiana Blue Ribbon School in 2001-02 and 2005-06, and a Four Star School by the Indiana Department of Education consistently across the program's years, on the school's own honors record. U.S. News & World Report ranked it Indiana's #2 public middle school on the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years' data, the school page notes, with the data years printed — the dated claim stands at that strength.

The succession, at the record's strength: the district's own release of April 28, 2015 names Sheryll Harper as Discovery's principal in the Four Star announcement of that spring; the school's page read in November 2026 seats Elizabeth W. Cunha as principal, with Troy Kauffman and Kevin McMillen as assistant principals. Between those two dated points the record reached prints no fuller succession, and none is reconstructed here. As Discovery stands in November 2026: grades 6–8, 941 students (NCES, 2024-25 through the 2026-27 directories), its enrollment grown seven percent over five school years on the directory record — the growth decades' middle-school line still rising a generation after the building opened.

Sources:

1. Discovery Middle School, "Our School" and "About Us," discovery.phmschools.org (10050 Brummitt Road; completed summer 1996, first student body 1996-97; the Mary Frank, Horizon, and Northpoint feeder pattern; the Archers and colors; Elizabeth Cunha, principal, with Troy Kauffman and Kevin McMillen, assistant principals; National Blue Ribbon 2006 and 2013, Indiana Blue Ribbon 2001-02 and 2005-06, Four Star consistently; U.S. News Indiana #2 on 2018-19 and 2019-20 data), read November 2026.
2. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, "Seven Four Star Schools at P-H-M," April 28, 2015 (Discovery Middle School — Principal Sheryll Harper), phmschools.org.
3. NCES Common Core of Data via PublicSchoolReview and SchoolDigger, 2026-27 / 2024-25 (941 students, grades 6-8; enrollment grown 7 percent over five school years).