Northpoint Elementary School

1998–present · 50800 Cherry Road

Northpoint opened in August 1998 as the building wave's last and northernmost school, and outgrew itself in three years: the district's own history page records the opening and the immediate sequel — a building addition of sixteen classrooms, two music rooms, and a large group instruction area was added in 2001, the clearest single measure in this section of how fast the subdivisions around Cherry Road filled the school built to serve them. Its teams are the Stars, in navy blue, silver, and white. The honors course followed the addition: Northpoint was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2010, and in January 2016 it was nominated again — one of eight Indiana schools put forward by State Superintendent Glenda Ritz — on the district's release of January 19, 2016. A district release of 2018 ranked it Indiana's #1 public elementary school and its sister entry in the district's release named Discovery the state's #3 public middle school; the claim is printed here with its date, as a dated claim. In 2025 the Indiana Department of Education granted the school STEM Certification, on its published page; on U.S. News & World Report's 2027 Best Schools list it stands #2 of some 1,020 ranked Indiana elementary schools.

The school is also the place's polling room: on November 3, 2026, Northpoint served as a Granger polling place, its sidewalk worked by the township's trustee candidates — the Story of Granger section leg carries the election-day account, and this section notes the civic fact where it belongs, in the school's own entry: in an unincorporated place, the elementary school is the public building. As Northpoint stands in November 2026: kindergarten through grade 5, 577 students (NCES, 2026-27 directories), and Lorraine White is principal, with Korinne Hazen Brown assistant to the principal, on the district's own directory. Its children go on to Discovery Middle School and Penn High School.

Sources:

1. Northpoint Elementary School, "Our School," northpoint.phmschools.org (opened August 1998; the 2001 addition of sixteen classrooms, two music rooms, and a large group instruction area; the Stars; STEM Certification 2025; U.S. News 2027 ranking #2; the feeder line to Discovery and Penn), read November 2026.
2. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, "Northpoint Nominated as a National Blue Ribbon School," January 19, 2016 (the 2010 Blue Ribbon; the January 15, 2016 nomination by Superintendent Glenda Ritz, one of eight Indiana schools), phmschools.org.
3. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation release, 2018 (Northpoint as Indiana's #1 public elementary school; Discovery as #3 public middle school), as carried in the Story of Granger section leg's record — dated claim, printed with its date.
4. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, school directory, phmschools.org (50800 Cherry Road, Granger; Lorraine White, principal; Korinne Hazen Brown, assistant to the principal), read November 2026; NCES via PublicSchoolReview, 2026-27 (577 students).
5. The Story of Granger section leg of this build (Northpoint as polling place, November 3, 2026), cross-referenced.