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Schools · New Carlisle and the New Prairie United School Corporation
New Carlisle's schools are the schools of a two-county corporation. The town stands in Olive Township, St. Joseph County, but the New Prairie United School Corporation (NPUSC) — Indiana school corporation 4805, NCES district 1807560, headquarters at 5327 N Cougar Road, New Carlisle — draws most of its territory from La Porte County: almost all of Kankakee Township and all of Galena, Hudson, and Wills townships there, together with Olive Township in St. Joseph County, an arrangement the superintendent's own contract describes as a corporation "located in La Porte and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana." Five schools carry the corporation's work: New Prairie High School, New Prairie Middle School, and Olive Township Elementary in New Carlisle, and Prairie View Elementary and Rolling Prairie Elementary in La Porte County. Behind them stands a township era of numbered district schools, a town school that began life as a Methodist college, two small high schools that combined in the late 1960s, and a Polish parish school at Terre Coupee that bought one of the township's own schoolhouses and ran it as a church school. This section takes the corporation whole, school by school, and prints what the record reached — and, where it did not reach, the gap and the record that would settle it.
The Township Era: District Schools and the Town's First Schoolhouse
OLIVE TOWNSHIP, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY · 1830 TO THE 1880 RECORD · CHAPMAN'S HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY (1880)
Olive Township was organized in 1830 , and its first schools were the district schools of the Indiana common-school system: small houses raised by neighborhoods, kept for short winter terms, and governed by the township's school…
The Town's Own School: From the Collegiate Institute to New Carlisle High School
NEW CARLISLE · THE INSTITUTE BUILDING TO 1968 · THE HIGH SCHOOL'S COURSE
The school the town bought in the old college building became New Carlisle's graded school and then its high school. The yearbook record fixes the high school's span at its near end: New Carlisle High School yearbooks run from…
The Consolidation: Two High Schools Become New Prairie
THE REORGANIZATION ERA · THE 1959 ACT'S FRAME · THE COMBINATION SETTLED TO THE LATE 1960S, ITS INSTRUMENT NOT REACHED
Indiana's School Corporation Reorganization Act of 1959 set the frame in which the state's small township and town school units were combined into multi-township corporations, and the New Prairie United School Corporation is this…
New Prairie High School
5333 N COUGAR ROAD, NEW CARLISLE · GRADES 9–12 · OPENED 1968 · AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
New Prairie High School is the corporation's flagship and its largest building , standing on the Cougar Road campus north of town — the school addressed at New Carlisle but lying, as its own record notes, in Wills Township, La…
The Other Four Schools Today
THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THE THREE ELEMENTARIES · PRINCIPALS AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
New Prairie Middle School , 5325 N Cougar Road, New Carlisle, grades 6–8, is the high school's campus neighbor and the present seat of the middle-school line whose earlier home was the old high school in town. Its principalship…
The Middle-School Line and the Career/Technical Line
THE LINES AS THEY STAND · NOVEMBER 2026
The middle-school line runs in three seats. Before the consolidation there was no separate middle school; the town's graded school carried the middle grades in the old Collegiate Institute building. At the consolidation the…
The Superintendents
THE SUCCESSION AS ESTABLISHED · STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTS SCHEDULES OF OFFICIALS · AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
Dr. Paul M. White has held the superintendency since July 1, 2015 , and holds it today. The Indiana State Board of Accounts' audit schedules of officials fix the modern line: the audit for July 1, 2014–June 30, 2016 lists Jim…
The Board of Trustees and the Election of November 3, 2026
FIVE SEATS, THREE DISTRICTS AND AT-LARGE · THE BOARD AS SEATED · THE 2026 RETURNS AT THE STRENGTH REACHED
Five trustees govern the corporation , elected from districts that themselves state the corporation's geography: District 1 is Olive Township; District 2 is Hudson and Wills townships; District 3 is Kankakee and Galena townships…
Enrollment
THE NAMED SERIES · NCES COMMON CORE OF DATA · 2024–25
The corporation enrolls just under three thousand students. In the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data — the federal file built from state reports — the New Prairie United School Corporation (district 1807560) reported 2,815 students in 2024–25 across its five schools, with a staff count of 367.01, serving grades kindergarten through twelve as a regular local district. The high school's share was 970 students in 2023–24. The Indiana Department of Education's own Compass fall average-daily-membership series for corporation 4805 — the state series this section's discipline prefers — was not pulled and is carried in the gaps; no enrollment figure from any other series is printed.
Sources:
- National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, district and school detail for district 1807560 — 2,815 students (2024–25); New Prairie High School 970 (2023–24).
Desegregation: The State Act, and a Tested None for This Corporation
INDIANA'S 1949 ACT · THE FEDERAL RECORD SEARCHED · THE FINDING PRINTED AT FULL SIZE
Indiana segregated its common schools by law before it desegregated them. An 1861 act barred Black children from the common schools altogether; the 1869 law admitted them "but only in segregated schools," in the words of the…
The Parochial Strand: St. Stanislaus Kostka, Terre Coupee
THE PARISH SCHOOL'S WHOLE COURSE · 1884 TO THE PRESENT STATE AS REACHED · THE TOWN'S PARISH SITUATION AS EVIDENCE
New Carlisle's Catholic school story is a rural parish's story, and the town's parish situation is itself the first evidence: the town has no Catholic parish church of its own. Its serving parish is St. Stanislaus Kostka at Terre…
Other-Faith and Independent Schools: A Tested None in Town
THE STRAND AT TRUE SIZE · NOVEMBER 2026
No independent or other-faith school stands in New Carlisle in the record reached. The searches run for this section — for a Christian academy, an independent school, a Lutheran or other parish school in the town — returned none: the town's school map is the corporation's three buildings and the parish story at Terre Coupee, and nothing else. The Lutheran presence in the township's history is a settler's church membership in a biographical sketch, not a school. The finding prints at its true size: tested, and none found, with the Michigan City and La Porte parochial names carried in the parochial article at candidate strength only.
Sources:
- The searches named in the text, run November 2026 and pinned to New Carlisle and Olive Township, Indiana.
Colleges at Civic Position, and Across-the-Line Schools
NO COLLEGE SEATED IN TOWN · THE BOUNDARY AT POINTER SIZE · NOVEMBER 2026
No college is seated in New Carlisle , and none ever has been since the Methodist college that became the town schoolhouse closed its collegiate experiment in the building the town bought. The institutions that serve the town sit…
Schools: Open Questions
WHAT THIS LEG DID NOT SETTLE · EACH GAP WITH THE RECORD THAT WOULD SETTLE IT
GAP-NCSCH-1 — The formation instrument and date. The corporation's combination is settled to the late 1960s by buildings and yearbooks, but the reorganization order and exact date its units combined were not reached. Settler: the…
The schools leg told the consolidation and the five buildings' present state, but printed no ladder, no school-by-school closings, and left the parish school's present state expressly unverified. This addendum builds the ladder level by level — with the open question of Olive Elementary's future now answered at the strength the corporation's own site allows — lists the closings the record actually names, and tests the parish school against every directory the diocese publishes.
The ladder, level by level: what was closed, converted and rebuilt
1859–2026 · THE BANKED COURSE WITH THE 2026 DETERMINATION
The ladder begins with a bargain: an $8,000 schoolhouse bought for $1,500. Chapman, read at the page for this section, tells it whole: the Methodist Episcopal Church erected the two-story brick building, 44 by 75 feet, in 1859 as…
The closing waves, school by school — at the strength the record allows
1910 and the consolidation era · ONE FIRM NAME, AND THE WAVE'S FRAME
A school-by-school list is only as good as its names, and this record names one district school firmly — the list prints that one whole and frames the rest honestly. No. 5 Public School, Tulip Road — the one firm name-and-place…
The parish school's present state: tested against the diocese, and standing as a gap
1884–2026 · GAP-NCSCH-5, WORKED AND LEFT OPEN WITH ITS SETTLER SHARPENED
The parish is demonstrably alive; its school's present state is the one thing about Terre Coupee this section cannot verify — and the difference is printed, not blurred. The banked course stands: St. Stanislaus Kostka's school…