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Schools · One Township Schoolhouse, Two High Schools, and a Corporation Named for an Astronaut
Walkerton has been schooled under three regimes: Lincoln Township's own schools, run from a schoolhouse first built in 1858; the town's graded school and Walkerton High School, in brick by the time Howard wrote in 1907; and, after Indiana's 1959 reorganization act worked through the county's southwest corner, a consolidated corporation — the John Glenn School Corporation, headquartered at 101 John Glenn Drive in Walkerton, teaching the town's children today in Walkerton Elementary School, the Harold C. Urey Middle School, and John Glenn High School. One correction to a claim a reader may bring to this section: there is no operating Walkerton High School — the name retired in 1968, when the Falcons replaced the Indians and the old high school building became a middle school; and there is no parochial school in Walkerton — the town's one Catholic school, St. Patrick, closed in 2008. Both closures are told whole below. this section tells the schools of this ground school by school, at the size the record gives each, with the current state dated as of November 2026.
The township era: a schoolhouse of 1858, moved into town in 1876
1858–1907 · LINCOLN TOWNSHIP'S SCHOOLS, FROM HOWARD'S COUNTY HISTORY
Schooling on this ground begins, as it does across Indiana, as a township act: Howard's history of 1907 records that Lincoln Township's first school house was erected in 1858, about a mile from the present town of Walkerton — two…
Walkerton's own school: the graded brick school and Walkerton High School, 1914 and 1942
A FIRST-CLASS HIGH SCHOOL BY 1907 · ALL TWELVE GRADES IN THE 1914 BUILDING · THE 1942 BUILDING, A MIDDLE SCHOOL SINCE 1968
By 1907 Walkerton's school was a town institution: Howard describes a substantial brick school building in the town, a graded school including a first-class high school — the plant the township era had grown into. Franklin N.…
The reorganization: PLJ, North Liberty, and the John Glenn School Corporation — the date in conflict
THE 1959 ACT'S COURSE IN THE COUNTY'S SOUTHWEST CORNER · THE FORMATION DATE NOT SETTLED, PRINTED WHOLE
Indiana's School Corporation Reorganization Act of 1959 set the frame, but Walkerton's consolidation ran on its own clock, and the record gives that clock two different times. The fullest single account is the obituary of Harold…
John Glenn High School: dedicated October 20, 1968, with the astronaut present
201 JOHN GLENN DRIVE · THE FALCONS · PRINCIPAL CHRIS MANERING, AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026
The consolidated high school took the name of the country's most famous living flyer, and he came to the dedication: John Glenn High School, at 201 John Glenn Drive on the town's east side, was dedicated on October 20, 1968, with…
The buildings today, and the men and women who run them
PRINCIPALS AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026, FROM THE CORPORATION'S OWN PAGES
The corporation teaches in four buildings, three of them Walkerton's own, and its website names every principal: Harold C. Urey Middle School, 407 Washington Street — the 1942 Walkerton High School building — is led in November…
The superintendents: Muncie to Winchell, with the middle years dark
THE SUCCESSION AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026 · THE STATE AUDIT ANCHORS THE MODERN LINE
The superintendency's line is anchored at both ends and dark in the middle, and the file prints it exactly so. The first holder is Harold Rubert Muncie: superintendent of the predecessor PLJ corporation from June 1972, then of…
The board of trustees, and the election of November 3, 2026
SEVEN TRUSTEES ON TOWNSHIP SEATS · THE 2026 RESULTS AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026
The corporation is governed by seven trustees elected from township residence seats across a three-county territory — the corporation holds Walkerton and North Liberty in St. Joseph County and territory in Marshall County, and…
Enrollment: the official figures the record carries
FEDERAL DATA 2024–25 · THE STATE-DERIVED SERIES 2014–2022
The corporation is a small district holding its numbers: the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data — the federal file built from the states' own reports — gives the John Glenn School Corporation (Indiana…
The parochial test: St. Patrick School, 1956–2008, and no school since
THE TEST RUN AND PRINTED · A CLOSED COURSE, NOT AN ABSENCE
The parochial test comes back with a whole closed course, not a blank: Walkerton had a Catholic school for fifty-two years. St. Patrick Parish — founded in 1856 as St. Henry Parish, its present church dated 1870 in the parish's…
Boundary ground: North Liberty, Greene Township, and a decree that is not John Glenn's
BOUNDARY SIZE, BY THE COUNTY SEQUENCE'S RULE · THE GREENE MOVEMENT, 2018–2024
North Liberty's schools print here at boundary size, because their whole belongs to the North Liberty build later in the locked county sequence: what Walkerton's file needs of them is the shared skeleton — North Liberty…
Schools: Open Questions
EACH GAP WITH ITS SETTLING SOURCE · AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026
The gaps are part of the record, and they are printed where a reader will look for the fact: GAP-WKSCH-1 — the John Glenn School Corporation's formation date, and the expansion of the predecessor's initials, PLJ: the first…