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1996–2026 · Discovery, St. Pius X, Granger Christian
Three school programs have played on Granger ground, and the leg takes them in the brief's order — the public middle school at pointer size, the parish school and the closed Christian school at documented size: Discovery Middle School, the CDP's only middle school (opened 1996; the building, its honors, and its succession are the Schools section's whole), fields the Archers in dark green and old gold in the PHM middle-school program, governed by the corporation's Athletics & Activities Code — the 2026-27 code, approved by the PHM board on May 18, 2026, names the three middle schools' teams together (Discovery Archers, Grissom Guardsmen, Schmucker Spartans) and fixes the program's shape: boys' and girls' cross country, football, volleyball, wrestling, boys' and girls' basketball, and boys' and girls' track and field, with cheerleading in fall and winter, played in the Big 11 conference. The plant behind the program is the school's own: fitness and main gymnasiums, an indoor track, basketball and tennis courts, and soccer and football fields, on the school's published account — with an intramural tier beneath the interscholastic one (tennis, basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer, a running club, pickleball, and ping pong all appear in the school's 2024-25 clubs record). The elementary ground below it is the Schools section's: Prairie Vista's soccer fields, tennis courts, and baseball diamonds, and Mary Frank's 1982 gymnasium, are pointed to, not re-dug.
St. Pius X's Knights are the parish school's teams, and their league is the diocese's own: the school — opened in August 2008 in the Parish Education Center, whole in the Schools section — plays in the Inter City Catholic League, the ICCL, the athletic conference of the South Bend-area Catholic schools, on the school's own athletics pages. The program runs in two tiers: the Squires, developmental teams reaching down to the preschool "Littlest Knights" dance and fielding cross country and track and field at grades 3–4, and the Knights proper, the competitive teams of grades 5–8, across volleyball, basketball, winter cheer, cross country, and track and field, with registration run season by season and schedules kept on the ICCL's own site. The parish plant gives the program its home ground — the parish center and gymnasium of 1986 (the Religion section's) and the education center of 2008 — and the program's age is the school's: first seasons at the end of the 2000s, a full eight-grade ladder only as the founding classes rose. One negative prints with the program: no ICCL championship for St. Pius X of Granger appears in the record — the searches return other St. Pius schools' titles in other states, which are not this school's and are not claimed — and the school's trophy record, if the league's archives hold one, is a named gap with the ICCL's own records as its settler. The program as documented is a going one in November 2026, Knights and Squires both, in a school at near capacity: the parish game's present state.
The third program is finished, and its surviving record is a schedule archive: Granger Christian School (1972–2026, whole in the Schools section, including its July 2026 closure) fielded the Knights — the place's second Knights — in basketball, soccer, and volleyball, on the school's verified listing, in the small Christian-school circuit of northern Indiana and southwest Michigan. The record that survives at printable strength is MaxPreps' self-reported schedule archive, which opens for the school in the winter of 2006-07 (a partial boys' basketball slate: losses to Grace Christian, 92–70 and 69–57, and a win at Howardsville Christian, 62–57) and runs in fragments across two decades: a 2–12 boys' basketball season in 2009-10 against Horizon Christian, Victory Christian Academy, DeMotte Christian and their like; a winless 0–10 volleyball season in 2022-23, played against Argos, South Bend Career Academy, Calumet Christian, and Victory Christian; and, in the school's last full winter, a February 3, 2025 account of the Knights at 6–6 after a 37–16 tournament loss to Forest Lake Academy. MaxPreps schedules are entered by the schools themselves and are partial by construction — the seasons above print as the archive's fragments, not as the program's whole record — but they fix what no listing can: the Knights played, on the record, for at least nineteen school years, against a stable circuit of sister schools, at a level where a 6–6 mid-season mark was the news of a February. When the school closed in the summer of 2026, the program ended with it; there is no successor team, and the Knights of Gumwood Road close this section's school record as its only completed course.
Sources:
- Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, "Athletics & Activities Code for Students Representing P-H-M Middle Schools," board approved May 18, 2026 (the Discovery Archers; the middle-school sport list and contest counts; the Big 11 authority line), and Discovery Middle School's own pages, read November 2026 (facilities: fitness and main gymnasiums, indoor track, basketball and tennis courts, soccer and football fields; the 2024-25 intramural clubs).
- Saint Pius X Catholic School, Granger (stpiuscatholicschool.net and the school's athletics site), read November 2026 (the ICCL as the program's conference; the Squires and Knights tiers; cross country and track & field at grades 3–4; volleyball, basketball, winter cheer; grades 3 and up eligible).
- PrivateSchoolReview, Granger Christian School profile (verified school update: basketball, soccer, and volleyball as the school's interscholastic sports), read November 2026.
- MaxPreps, Granger Christian Knights (Granger, IN), read November 2026 (the 2006-07 and 2009-10 boys' basketball schedules; the 2022-23 volleyball schedule; the February 3, 2025 basketball recap, Knights 6–6) — self-reported schedule record, printed at that strength.
- The Schools and Religion sections of this build (Discovery's building and honors; the St. Pius X school's 2008 opening and the parish gym of 1986; Granger Christian's course and closure), cross-referenced.