MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Henryville Junior/Senior High School is to create and maintain an environment that ensures that every member of the school community reaches a high level of academic achievement, verified by objective measures. and that furthers positive intellectual, physical, moral, and social development.

DESCRIPTION

Henryville Junior-Senior High School, a member of the West Clark  Community School Corporation is a small, rural, community school. It is located in the northwest corner of Clark County, Indiana. Students in Monroe and Union Townships will attend Henryville schools. This is an approximately 77-square-mile area. The school is connected to Henryville Elementary School, and the shared library and cafeteria serve the needs of students in the elementary as well as the secondary.

The facilities at Henryville Junior-Senior High School continue to be enhanced after the completion of a major building and renovation project in 2003. Continued improvements include additional computer labs with up-to-date workstations and overhead projectors, refinished gym floors, new baseball block house and dug out, new public address systems for track, baseball, and softball, new student furniture, and other aesthetic additions such as motivational pictures and banners. The facilities are well maintained with close attention to cleanliness, safety, and function.

Henryville Junior-Senior School houses seventh through twelfth grade students. Approximately 267 students in the high school and 184 in the junior high for a total enrollment of 451 students. Of that enrollment fifteen percent is special needs and twenty nine percent is on free or reduced lunches. The average class size in the junior high is twenty-one students per class and nineteen students per class in the high school.

Staffing consists of 29 certified employees including 26 full time teachers, 1 counselor, 1 media specialist (shared with elementary), 1 assistant principal/athletic director, and 1 principal. We have 3 ½ custodians.
 The faculty’s average years of teaching experience total twenty with the mean age of 46 years.

Henryville Junior-Senior High School Curriculum Guides are located in each individual classroom and are customized to meet the needs of the teaching assignments of the individual teacher. They contain Indiana Academic Standards, teaching objectives, instructional strategies, and activities to meet the standards. Assessment options and resources are also listed to assist the classroom teacher. As new standards have been adopted by the state of Indiana, re-evaluation and updating of guides are underway.

Henryville Junior-Senior High School has completed a major building and renovation project. Major improvements at Henryville Junior-Senior High School include the following: a new library, a new science / math wing with much needed science laboratories that have expanded the course offerings, a family and consumer sciences complex, a new resource room that allows the implementation of a life skills program for special needs students, four new restrooms, a new weight room, a new stage, a new concession area, new lockers, new office area, a group presentation room for group instruction and presentations, and also the addition of 6 new high school and 3 junior high classrooms. The cafeteria has been renovated to include two dining areas, which will accommodate elementary and secondary students concurrently. This has allowed for more flexibility in lunch time scheduling.  A junior high computer lab with 30 works stations is planned for 2005.

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