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Schools — Lakeville
Lakeville's schools run in three courses that meet in one corporation. The township's course is the oldest: a log school-house of 1836 on a settler's farm, a scatter of district school-houses, and a state consolidation movement that reached this township as a call before it reached it as an act. The town's course is a building: Lakeville High School of 1931, the township's first high school, on the National Register since 1991. And the corporation's course is the frame that holds both today — organized in 1962 across a county line, renamed in 2026, with its two schools standing on opposite sides of that line to this day.
The Township Schoolhouse: A Log School-House in 1836
1836 – c. 1900
Union Township's first school-house was a log structure built in 1836 on the corner of James Moon's farm, and its first school was a subscription school of about twenty scholars. Chapman (1880), Union Township chapter, "The…
1898: A Call for Consolidation, Not a Lakeville Act
1897 – 1907 · gap G-SP-5 settled at nomination strength
The date 1898 stands in Lakeville's school record, but at first hand it is a state superintendent's call for the centralization of rural schools — not a consolidation act of this township. LK-1 banked the question as gap G-SP-5…
Lakeville High School, 601 N. Michigan — 1931 to 1983
1930 – 1983 · NRIS 91001166
In 1931 Union Township built its first high school: a two-story brick Collegiate Gothic building on an eight-acre parcel at 601 N. Michigan Street, bought from George and Elizabeth Holland on 28 May 1930 for $3,618.45. The facts…
The Old School After 1983 — What the Record Supports, and What It Does Not
1983 – present
The flat statement that the old school "now houses a community center" is not supported at carrier strength, and this article prints what the carriers actually support instead. The claim's own chain is weak at its root: the town…
Two Townships, One Corporation — Union-North United, 1962
1962 – present
On 1 July 1962 the schools of Union Township, St. Joseph County, and North Township, Marshall County, were organized into a single corporation: the Union-North United School Corporation, governed by a five-member elected Board of…
The Superintendents — a Line with Its Gaps Printed
1989 – present
The corporation's superintendents succession is carried here as far as the record reaches — four holders or holdings across thirty-seven years, with the breaks in the line printed as gaps, not filled. Dr. David L. Pruis was…
LaVille Jr–Sr High School — the Lancers, 1965 to Today
1965 – present · 69969 US 31 South
When the new high school opened in 1965, the township's high school course moved south of town to 69969 US 31 South — on the St. Joseph County side of the county line, as the line evidence in the next article shows. The opening…
LaVille Elementary and the County Line
12645 Tyler Rd — in Marshall County
The corporation's two schools straddle the county line their corporation was formed across: the Jr–Sr High stands in St. Joseph County, and LaVille Elementary — 12645 Tyler Road, Lakeville postal address — stands in Marshall…
The Huggart Settlement's School — Olive Branch
1850s – 1890
The children of the township's free Black settlement attended the district school at Olive Branch — a largely white school — and no carrier names a separate settlement school. The record stands first-hand in Frederick A. Karst's…
The North Township Strand
before 1962 · Marshall County
Across the county line, North Township's own schools fed into the 1962 corporation, and they print here at boundary size — the size they bear on the corporation's founding, no more. A Marshall County Historical Society…
The Name Change — LaVille Community Schools, 2026
8 June 2026
On 8 June 2026 the Board of School Trustees voted 4–0 to change the corporation's name from Union-North United School Corporation to LaVille Community Schools. The vote stands on a single carrier chain, printed at its strength…
What Was Tested and Not Found
searched November 2026
Three tests the schools checklist requires were run on this small corporation, and their results print as results. The parochial test: no Catholic, Lutheran, other-faith, or independent school was found seated in Lakeville or…
The banked schools file carries the combined Jr–Sr High whole but never states the middle-school line as it stands today, carries no career/technical line at all, and never tests the checklist's college item even as a negative. This addendum states the first, digs the second at its carriers' strengths, and runs the third test to its answer.
The middle-school line as it stands, and the career/technical line
November 2026 · NCES 2023–24 (School ID 181191001879); the corporation's renaming record; Ivy Tech and press carriers for the CTE line
There is no middle school in Lakeville, and there has never needed to be: the junior high is grades 7 and 8 inside the combined building, and the line as it stands today is a single school, grades 7 through 12. LaVille Jr–Sr High…
No college: the higher-education test
Tested November 2026 · NCES College Navigator, the South Bend area; the state and national college directories as searched
The schools leg has no college because Lakeville has none — tested, not assumed: no institution of higher education is seated in the town or in Union Township in any directory reached. The federal College Navigator's results for…