Western School Corporation is a public school district which serves
Russiaville,
Alto,
New London
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Places United States
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** ...
,
West Middleton, and southwestern
Kokomo in
Howard County, Indiana. The district spans the Howard County townships of Harrison, Honey Creek and Monroe, and the school buildings themselves straddle Harrison and Monroe.
WSC's high school gained national attention in the mid-1980s. When one of the students at the junior high, a
hemophiliac
Ryan White
Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnos ...
had been diagnosed with AIDS and recovering from an opportunistic infection (viral pneumonia),
the school decided that White was ineligible to attend school out of fear the disease could spread. White was forced to take many of his eighth grade classes by speakerphone until a prolonged court battle overturned Western School Corporation's decision.
Administration
*Randy McCracken, Superintendent
Building directory
*Western Administration Building
*Western Primary School (K-2)
*Western Intermediate School (3-5)
*Western Middle School (6-8)
*
Western High School (9-12)
References
External links
Western School Corporation
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School districts in Indiana
Education in Howard County, Indiana