Michigan City Area Schools

A group of Michigan City High School students attending the A. K. Smith Career Center received a special award from the LaPorte County Family YMCA in early March, honoring them as 2018 YMCA Youth Volunteers of the Year. The students, who are enrolled...

Barker Middle School held its third quarterly “STEM Community Challenge” on Friday, February 22. This quarter’s challenge was to design a paper airplane that would fly the farthest distance. Students on several Barker teams took on teams from...

“Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it” is a phrase uttered by many who say that there is much to be learned from the past. Cadets Lance Corporals (LCpl) Declan Rice and Dontrell Maitland of the Michigan City High School (MCHS)...

Band and choral students from Krueger and Barker Middle Schools earned high marks at the recent Indiana State School Music Association's district instrumental and vocal solo and ensemble contests. Both events were held at Kankakee Valley Middle...

Michigan City Area Schools will conduct Kindergarten and Preschool (Pre-K) registration for the 2019-2020 school year on Wednesday, February 27. Kindergarten students must be age 5 by August 1, 2018; Pre-K students must be age 3 by August 1, 2019....

The Michigan City High School (MCHS) Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (MCJROTC) participated in the third round of Cyber Patriot, the national high school cyber security competition where students act as security managers for an...

Approximately 360 students at Krueger Middle School participated in the school-level competition of the National Geographic GeoBee in late November/early December. The top 10 students advanced to the final school competition. On December 12, Wyatt...

Lake Hils STEM Elementary School rewarded close to 150 students with a special field trip to see the movie, “Wreck-it Ralph 2” on November 27 and 28. The trip was part of a new school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports program...

Festive music will fill the air as more than 900 vocalists and instrumentalists kick off the holiday season at the Michigan City Area Schools’ “One City, One Sound” concert on Thursday, December 6. The event will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the...

As a child, Kelley Baker always saw herself as a police officer. And why not? That’s what her father was, and she wanted to follow in his footsteps. Later, she found out law enforcement wasn’t a career path most girls followed. “Back in the...