Merrillville Community Schools

Merrillville High School has added a brand-new team to its lineup of student activities and organizations. For the first time in its history, Merrillville High School has a step team, offering a continuation of the thriving Purple Reign Step Team...

The Food Bank’s Backpack Program provides nutritious meals and snacks for children to help carry them through the evenings, weekends, and school vacations when the consistency of their schools’ breakfasts and lunches are not available. Backpacks...

Families living in Ross Township, which includes Merrillville and parts of Crown Point and Hobart, are invited to attend open enrollment for the Merrillville Community School Corporation’s Head Start Preschool. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to...

Merrillville Community School Corporation's Pierce Middle School was the recipient of $8,500 worth of supplies from Enchanted Backpack.  Two vans from the organization arrived yesterday filled with boxes and bags of items that included books,...

Merrillville, Ind. -- Great theater is as close as Merrillville High School. The public is invited to join the award-winning MHS Thespian Troupe as it presents its fall production of "Rose and The Rime," a Midwestern fairy tale written by Nathan...

The Merrillville Community School Corporation is participating in Coats for Kids & Families, a communitywide effort to provide coats for children and families facing economic hardship.  Community members are invited to donate new or gently-used...

When the staff at Iddings Elementary School decided to participate in the national program “One School, One Book” this fall, they enlisted the help of some local heroes.  Members of the Merrillville Fire Department jumped at the chance to be...

Merrillville – Merrillville High School choir and orchestra students are ready to present their first concerts of the school year. The public is invited to attend. Both events will take place in Reinhart Auditorium at Merrillville High School 276...

For the last two school years, Miller Elementary School Principal Jennifer Griffin has been promoting the love of reading and books weekly to students and families using read alouds on Facebook Live. Griffin will begin her third school year of weekly...

Providing a safe learning environment is foundational to our students’ success. Students receiving instruction in a classroom setting is key to their academic and social emotional success. We learned last year that our staff, students, and parents...