The corporation's board, from Osceola's side

SEVEN SEATS — THREE PENN, TWO HARRIS, ONE MADISON, ONE AT-LARGE · THE PENN SEATS AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026

Osceola votes for its schools in Penn Township's seats: the Penn-Harris-Madison Board of School Trustees has seven members on four-year staggered terms — three elected from Penn Township, two from Harris Township, one from Madison Township, and one at-large — and its president in November 2026 is Chris Riley, a board member since 2011 (one carrier describes his seat as Harris Township's; a 2018 corporation article described him as holding the at-large seat; the variance prints and rides with the board's own roster as settler). The three Penn Township seats: Seat #1 is held by Jennifer (Jen) Smoker, appointed by the board in November 2025 to fill the vacancy left by Matthew Chaffee, whose resignation took effect October 8, 2025 — the appointment article gives her the remainder of a term expiring in 2026, while the board page's caption text gives "Term Expires 2030"; both print, the November 2026 election for the seat being the event that reconciles them and its result not separately documented in the record reached. Seat #2 is held by Ryan McCullough, the board's vice president, appointed December 1, 2021, to the seat Jamie Woods vacated, through the November 2024 election for that seat. The third Penn seat is held by Katie (Inabnit) Bell, elected in November 2024 for a term running 2025–2028. Around them: Gary Fox (Harris Township); Larry Beehler (Madison Township, Seat 5), honored at the board's October 12, 2026, meeting with the state's Outstanding Board Service Award for forty years on this board; and Dana Sullivan, the at-large member and the board's secretary. The board's Osceola-facing act of this period is the superintendent's appointment itself — the unanimous 7-0 vote of May 27, 2025, that seated Dr. Heather Short — taken in the superintendents entry above. No redistricting or boundary change moving Osceola's children between the corporation's schools, and no closing touching an Osceola school, was found in the corporation, newspaper-archive, or Ball State records searched for the corporation's whole life; the statement is printed as what it is — a not-found in the record reached, not a proof that no boundary line ever moved on a map in the Educational Services Center.

Sources:

1. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, Board Members & Terms and Board of School Trustees pages, crawled November 11, 2026: the seven-seat structure, President Chris Riley, Secretary Dana Sullivan, Vice President Ryan McCullough.
2. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation (October 10 and 21, 2025; November 3, 2025): the Chaffee resignation and the Smoker appointment; (December 14, 2021): McCullough's appointment to Seat #2; (May 27, 2025): Bell's election and the Short appointment; (October 8, 2026): Beehler's forty years and the 2026 award.
3. GoodParty.org, Penn-Harris-Madison board listings, crawled November 11, 2026: Bell's term 2025–2028; Sullivan at-large.