Huntington, IN Schools (Fort Wayne, Nashville: sex offender, school districts, college)

[GroverCleveland]

I was curious if anyone here has specific information on the area of Huntington, just west of Ft. Wayne.

My wife and I are looking to relocate to N. Indiana from middle TN and we have pretty much narrowed it down to the area directly west of Fort Wayne. We have found properties that we like on both the north and south sides of N.Jefferson Street.

Any information on the local school district for that area would be greatly appreciated.

Please feel free to interject with anything else you would like to say about that area as well beyond just the local school districts.

Thanks!

[MikiJayne]

I taught for a long term substitute teaching position at Riverview midde school for about 9 weeks in 2001. I was really impressed with the school and the kids there. The administration was extremely good at supporting and helping the teachers. The kids got to go on several field trips that I was able to chaperone, and it was quite a great school. I don't know about the rest of the schools in Huntington though.

[domergurl]

Here's a list of schools in the Huntington district, from the Indiana Dept. of Education:

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I went to college near Huntington and always liked the town.

[Interpol76]

One if the first things you may want to do (especially if you have kids) if you are thinking of moving to Huntington, is check out the sex offender registry. Huntington is crawling with child molesters for a town of only 16,000. In fact, a few months ago, about 20 molesters/offenders alone had to move because they were living too close to Lincoln Elm. School.

[GroverCleveland]

Originally Posted by domergurl

Here's a list of schools in the Huntington district, from the Indiana Dept. of Education:

Search for Schools

I went to college near Huntington and always liked the town.

Domergurl, thanks for that link. It's greatly appreciated.

So from that list, I am assuming that Huntington North High School services all of the other middle and elementary schools. That's interesting, because I don't know if I have ever seen a situation where there was a need for 8 elementary schools but only 1 high school.

[domergurl]

Originally Posted by GroverCleveland

Domergurl, thanks for that link. It's greatly appreciated.

So from that list, I am assuming that Huntington North High School services all of the other middle and elementary schools. That's interesting, because I don't know if I have ever seen a situation where there was a need for 8 elementary schools but only 1 high school.

yep, 1 high school. It's pretty common in Indiana. There are many counties that have 1 high school.

[GroverCleveland]

Originally Posted by Interpol76

One if the first things you may want to do (especially if you have kids) if you are thinking of moving to Huntington, is check out the sex offender registry. Huntington is crawling with child molesters for a town of only 16,000. In fact, a few months ago, about 20 molesters/offenders alone had to move because they were living too close to Lincoln Elm. School.

Thanks for the advice Interpol.
I checked it out. It looks like there is about 600 more (59 to 658) in my current area of Nashville, TN. So I'm not too worried about it.

I realize that per capita that would still probably be a lower percentage, but when you're talking those kinds of numbers, it really doesn't make me feel any better that the percentage is lower. Having 600+ sex offender around me is a pretty frightening thought regardless of the city population. So I'm more than willing to take my chances in the Fort Wayne/Huntington area.

I do appreciate the advice though, I hadn't even thought of checking that.

[Peanutz]

Grover, we moved to Huntington last summer from out-of-state. So far, it seems to be a pretty genial town (people are friendly, etc.), and our 8th grade son seems to have settled into Riverview middle school with no problems. I like the area because it's small enough to where things are pretty mellow here, not much traffic to speak of, no gangs wandering the streets or any other rampant crime, and it's only 20 minutes from Ft. Wayne. Decent restaurants, grocery stores, Walmart (of course), pizza places, the usual range of services. There's a nice little strip of shops downtown as well. The high school (which our son will be attending next year) looks to be a pretty large (and very new/clean) facility, which I guess makes sense since it serves such a large geographic area. We live a few blocks north of Jefferson, which from what I've heard from locals is the "better" side of town, for what that's worth. Good luck!