Schools: Open Questions

WHAT THIS LEG COULD NOT SETTLE, AND WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT

GAP-OSSCH-1 — the one-room schools' full mapping and closing years. Kiracofe names the fourteen schools of 1853 but maps only Osceola's to its district number (No. 5); the other thirteen name-to-number pairings, and the year each one-room school closed as the graded buildings gathered the children, are not in the record reached. Settlers: the Penn Township trustee's records and the county superintendent of schools' annual reports. GAP-OSSCH-2 — the Osceola School's address, demolition date, and site today. The building is demolished by 2006 (Tribune); the survey point in the town center is a clue, not an address. Settlers: the corporation's board minutes and building files; the county property record for the site. GAP-OSSCH-3 — the principals of the Osceola center and of Moran before Frank Anglin, and the Anglin–Russell handover date. Anglin holds by January 2015 and through January 2019; Russell holds by June 2020. Settlers: the corporation's personnel actions and board minutes; the school's own yearbooks and newsletters. GAP-OSSCH-4 — the first superintendent of Penn-Harris-Madison (1963–1971), and with him the exact starting dates of Dr. MacNaughton and Dr. Markavitch. Settlers: Ball State Teachers College, The Future of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation (April 22, 1964), located in the university's digital repository but not mined for this section; the corporation's board minutes of 1962–63. GAP-OSSCH-5 — the Moran building's fabric: whether the classrooms at 305 North Beech Road today are the 1951 brick, the 1982 work the corporation lists (built or remodeled unresolved in its own article), or later rebuilding. Settler: the corporation's building files and capital-project records. GAP-OSSCH-6 — a Moran enrollment figure certified by the Indiana Department of Education for the current year: the Department's enrollment dashboard was located but no Moran figure extracted from it; the NCES series printed in the Moran entry stands in its place, dated by year. Settler: the Department's Compass/enrollment data for the corporation. One variance rides open from the entries: Penn High School's construction cost, $3.6 million against $1 million in the secondary record (settler: the corporation's and the Mishawaka build's record), held at boundary size here.

Sources:

1. The search record of this section, November 2026, as itemized in the entries above.