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 Porte County, a small emblem of the corporation's two-county geography. The Cougars field the corporation's high-school athletics, a founding member of the Northern State Conference in its day and now of the Northern Indiana Conference. Enrollment stood at 970 in 2023–24 in the NCES Common Core of Data — against the 930 capacity the corporation's 2014 bond statement assigned the 1968 building.

The building has been kept, not replaced: the corporation's 2014 general obligation bonds funded HVAC and capital improvements at the high school (and at Rolling Prairie Elementary). The school's present administration, from the corporation's site and its 2025–26 handbook: Principal Justin Heinold, who wrote in his August 2026 newsletter that he was beginning his fourth year as principal — a 2023 start — with Assistant Principal Casey Martin, Dean of Students Brandon Groves, and Director of College and Career Readiness Tara White. In May 2026 the school opened an Amazon "Think Big Space," reported by the South Bend Tribune as the first in Indiana, with a podcast studio among its rooms; in November 2026 its Girls' Tech Day drew more than a hundred middle-school girls over from the middle school next door.

Sources:

1. National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data — New Prairie High School enrollment, 970 (2023–24).
2. NPUSC, New Prairie High School 2025–26 handbook and the principal's August 2026 newsletter (corporation site) — administration and tenure.
3. NPUSC, General Obligation Bonds, Series 2014, Final Official Statement — the 2014 HVAC and capital program.
4. South Bend Tribune, May 20, 2026, and November 8, 2026 — the Think Big Space opening and Girls' Tech Day.