# Gary Community School Corporation

Gary Community School Corporation is a school district headquartered in Gary, Indiana.
The school district includes the majority of Gary.

## History

In 2017, Gary Community Corp became the first school system in Indiana involved in a state takeover. Control of the district was transferred from the elected school board and appointed school superintendent to the State of Indiana's Distressed Unit Appeals Board, which placed MGT Consulting and Emergency Fiscal Manager Peggy Hinckley in charge of managing the district. Gary school board President Rosie Washington was quoted as saying "We Have No Power", in the context of the state's takeover. In November 2018, it was discovered that former Indiana Superintendent Tony Bennett, who directed policies that led to the state takeover, has an ownership stake in the for-profit company selected to manage the takeover with the potential to earn $11.4 million.

## School uniforms

All GCSC students from pre-Kindergarten through the 12th grade are required to wear school uniforms. Starting the 2007-2008 Academic School year, all schools will follow the new "school uniform" policy. The school uniform policy varies for school and grade level, such as color.

## Schools

All schools are located in Gary.
Gary Community School Corporation, which operates most of the public schools in the city proper.
Traditional high schools:
* West Side Leadership Academy
Middle schools:
* Gary Middle School
* Williams Annex - As of 2017 it is the sole school in the Gary CSC that only serves middle school
Elementary schools:
* Benjamin Banneker Achievement Center
* Bailly Stem Academy
* Beveridge Elementary School
* Glen Park Academy For Excellence In Learning
* Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
* Jacques Marquette Elementary School
* Frankie W. McCullough Academy for Girls
* Dr. Bernard C. Watson Academy for Boys
** Dr. Bernard C. Watson Academy For Boys, an all boys' zoned elementary school, opened in 2006 in the former Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary School. McCullough Academy for Girls, an all girls' zoned elementary school, opened in the former David O. Duncan Elementary School in 2006. These schools served Dorie Miller Public Housing Development and Delaney Public Housing Development. Watson was scheduled to close in 2014.
* Daniel Hale Williams Elementary School
Early childhood centers:
* Mary McLeod Bethune Early Childhood Development Center
Ungraded:
* Gary Area Career Center

## Former schools
### High schools

| School | Year closed |
| Emerson High School | 2008 |
| Horace Mann High School | 2004 |
| Lew Wallace High School | 2014 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Academy | 2018 |
| Theodore Roosevelt College and Career Academy | 2020 |
| William A. Wirt High School | 2009 |

### Middle schools

| School | Year closed |
| Alfred Beckman Middle School | 2005 |
| Bailly Middle School | — |
| Casimir Pulaski Junior High School | 2014 |
| Dunbar-Pulaski Middle School | 2015 |
| Thomas A. Edison Middle School | 2003 |
| Tolleston Middle School | 2010 |

### Elementary schools

| School | Year closed | Notes |
| Aetna Elementary School | 2005 |
| Alain L Locke Elementary School | 2006 |
| Ambridge Elementary School | 2010 |
| Arthur P. Melton Elementary School | 2006 |
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary School | 2008 |
| Black Oak Elementary | 2001 |
| Brunswick Elementary School | 2016 |
| Daniel Webster Elementary School | 2016 |
| Dr Bernard C. Watson Academy For Boys | 2018 |
| Ernie Pyle Elementary School | 2010 |
| Frankie Woods McCullough Academy for Girls | 2012 |
| George Washington Carver School | 2006 |
| Grissom Elementary School | 2014 |
| Horace S. Norton Elementary School | 2006 |
| Ivanhoe Elementary School | 2010 |
| Jacques Marquette Elementary School | 2021 |
| James Whitcomb Riley Elementary School | 2005 |
| Jefferson Elementary School | 2018 |
| John H. Vohr Elementary | 2010 |
| Kennedy King Elementary School | 2009 | Now Gary Middle School |
| George Kuny Elementary School | 2010 |
| M C Bennett Holiness School | 2004 |
| New Technical Innovative Institute Elementary School | 2018 |
| Nobel Elementary School | 2006 |
| School For Life Ministries | 2014 |
| Spaulding Elementary School | 2005 |