Norwell Community Schools is the school district that serves extreme Northern Wells County, Indiana. Norwell consists of five schools: Norwell High School, Norwell Middle School, Lancaster Central Elementary School, Ossian Elementary School, and Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School. NWCS serves the towns of

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, Uniondale,

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, Zanesville, Markle and the extreme outskirts of the town of Bluffton. The district was formed after the 1967 consolidation of six township schools, with four original schools: OES, LCES, NMS, and NHS in 1967. The district was formerly named Northern Wells Community Schools until it was changed in 2023.

Norwell High School

Norwell High School is at the intersection of

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and Norwell Road just outside of

Ossian, Indiana Ossian is a town in Jefferson Township, Wells County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The town was named after Ossian, the narrator of a cycle of epic poems by the Scottish poet James Macpherson. The population was 3,289 at the 2010 census. Hist ...

. Features of the campus include a football field, baseball diamond, tennis courts, track and field, and over two acres of open grass for soccer. Norwell High School has won the state championship for the best band performance in the US State of Indiana at Indianapolis for the last five years.

Norwell Middle School

Norwell Middle School is located directly next to the high school. It recently has received a remodel and a new building addon.

Ossian Elementary School

Ossian Elementary School currently stands where the old Ossian High School was before Northern Wells' consolidated all six township schools. Principal: Dee Dee Larkey

Lancaster Central Elementary School

Lancaster Central Elementary School is located in rural Bluffton, Indiana, on Jackson Street near Indiana Highway 1.

Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School

Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School is a private school located on the eastern outskirts of Ossian.

Recent renovations

Over the last several years, Northern Wells Community Schools superintendents tried to make it so that the Norwell High School campus could be fully renovated, as the school needed repairs and revitalization. In the spring of 2013, residents in the Northern Wells Community Schools district finally approved the US$5,400 referendum to renovate and revitalize the Norwell High School campus. The renovations of the high school included a new cafeteria, a better air conditioning, heating and ventilation system, a new school office, 15 new school buses, and iPad mobile devices.

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School districts in Indiana Education in Wells County, Indiana School districts established in 1967 1967 establishments in Indiana