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The corporation's name changed by its board's vote on 8 June 2026 — and at November 2026 the record carries the two names side by side, which is how they print. The frame first: the corporation was organized 1 July 1962 out of Union Township, St. Joseph County, and North Township, Marshall County, under the name Union-North United School Corporation, governed by a five-member elected board; its schools are LaVille Jr–Sr High School, 69969 US 31 South, and LaVille Elementary School, 12645 Tyler Road — the elementary standing in Marshall County, the address 22601 Tyler Road being the corporation's central office, exactly as the schools pass settled the Tyler Road conflict. The rename: on 8 June 2026 the Board of School Trustees voted 4–0 to change the corporation's name to LaVille Community Schools. The strength of that sentence is stated as plainly as the fact: the vote is carried by the corporation's reference account citing the meeting's broadcast video, and the board's own minutes or packet for that meeting were not reached on any search of the corporation's site — so the rename does not yet stand at minutes strength anywhere online this section could reach. No carrier reached states an effective date for the new name (not 1 July 2026, not any other; the new name stands in corporation use by the July 2026 posting of its 2026–27 handbook, which is a use-date, not an effective date), no corporation record reached states its reasons, and no motion, mover, or absent fifth member is named anywhere reached — three wants standing as one gap with the 8 June minutes as settler. The legal frame prints at class strength only: a school corporation's name is an element of its organization under Indiana's reorganization law (IC 20-23), and no state approval instrument for this rename was reached. The transition's state at November 2026 is printed carrier by carrier, unharmonized: the corporation's own current site brands LaVille Community Schools; its own 2026–27 Jr–Sr High handbook carries the new name on its cover and the old name repeatedly in its body ("Union-North United School Corporation follows all state laws and regulations as it pertains to attendance"); its old domain, unionnorth.org, remains live under the old name, its superintendent's welcome unreplaced; the Department of Education's published lists reached (the 2024–25 compensation report; the FY2027 indirect-cost rates) carry Union-North United School Corp, corporation 7215, the live directory entry not reached; the federal directory for 2025–26, a year predating the vote, carries the old name; and the state's taxing-unit register for budget year 2027 still lists "7215 - Union-North United School Corporation," its budget notice marked not submitted. The press sequence is dated and labelled: the Tribune heads the corporation Union-North United in February 2026 and LaVille Community Schools in July. The board at November 2026, on the corporation's own 2026–27 handbook corroborated whole by the press officers account: Jared McQueen, president; Rodd Decker, vice-president; Dawn Amor, secretary; Andrew Doyle; Tom Strang. Seats print with their carriers: McQueen at-large, Amor the Union Township seat and Doyle the North Township seat for the 2025–2028 cohort (an officeholder listing, corroborated in structure by the 2024 filing coverage), the other two seats the second Union and second North seats that stood in 2026. One membership change besides the pending election is recorded and its mechanism left open: the 2025–26 handbook seats Joe Czarnecki where the January 2026 officers account and the 2026–27 handbook seat Tom Strang — no carrier reached states when or how the change occurred — and the press carries a contradiction about it, printed whole in the register: the February 2026 account lists the board with Strang and without Czarnecki, while the July 2026 filings account calls "current members Rodd Decker and Joseph Czarnecki" the two not seeking re-election. On the Union Township seat's race itself, the party labels also print in two forms — the October candidate list's Sherman (Republican) and Balmer (Independent) against the July filing snapshot's "no party affiliation listed" for both, in the first cycle under the law making school board races partisan — and the result stands in the election article under its discipline. The superintendent line: Keith Burke's contract stands re-verified from the corporation's own hearing notice, read whole — a contract effective 6 January 2025 to 31 December 2028, beginning base salary $129,185.56 — with the naming note printed: the notice's text as read does not itself name him, the identification resting on the concordance of his arrival letter on the corporation's old domain, his prior district's resignation notice effective 3 January 2025, and his signature as superintendent on both domains now. His predecessor, Dr. Angela Piazza, stands in office by March 2023 on the Department of Education record and still in the corporation's own 2024–25 elementary handbook, so her end narrows to late 2024, its date uncarried. Behind her, the holder of the contract of 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2024 remains unnamed in the corporation's own hearing notice for it, re-read whole — a document that names the board of December 2021 (Eash, president; Smith; Ort; Czarnecki; Balmer) and no superintendent; whether that holder was Piazza herself, on a start the record has not printed, or another person is the precise open question, and it is not answered here. Enrollment prints only with its year attached: the federal directory's 1,221 students is a 2024–25 figure, and no official carrier reached prints a 2026–27 count.