WHITELAND, Ind. (WISH) — Clark-Pleasant Community Schools began a new school year on Wednesday, introducing several new initiatives and construction projects.

Superintendent Dr. Tim Edsell joined WISH-TV live for Daybreak’s Morning Bell on Thursday.

Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation is a public school system serving grades pre-kindergarten through high school and is a rural/suburban community, located in the heart of Johnson County. The district is made up of Clark and Pleasant townships and the district boundaries include Greenwood, Whiteland, New Whiteland, and Franklin, with some students choosing to go there from surrounding towns and the south side of Indianapolis. 

Edsell says the school year is off to a successful start. He highlighted the district’s efforts to enhance educational facilities and programs without increasing taxes.

“We had a great day. We got every student to school. We got them back home,” Edsell said.

The district is in the third year of a multi-phase high school construction project, which includes building an academic wing with 65 classrooms and a state-of-the-art science lab. Plans also include adding an auditorium, a fieldhouse, and upgrading athletic facilities, all while keeping the tax rate neutral.

“Not raise those taxes, but provide state-of-the-art facilities for our students in fine arts, academics, and athletics,” Edsell added.

The district says it now holds the record for the largest high school scoreboard in the state of Indiana.

“We are very proud of a new video board that’s posted at our football field that we will use for football games, for track and field events, for our marching band competitions. We even used it this past May for high school graduation. Our families love seeing that,” Edsell explained. “It’s a partnership that we have been able to start and implement with businesses that are going to be able to provide commercials, promote their business, and be a good revenue stream and pay for itself.”

For elementary students, a new K-5 Trauma and Behavior Program aims to provide individualized support for students struggling in traditional classroom settings, helping them transition back successfully.

“It supports the students and it also supports our traditional teachers and regular student body in a way that will help them stay on track to learn as much as they can and then eventually graduate,” Edsell said.

The district is also undergoing a rebranding effort, standardizing its colors and crest to unify its identity.

“(We wanted) a uniform, a standard approach with our colors, blue, orange, and white. This is our corporation crest that illustrates when the corporation was formed and the two high schools of Clark High School and Whiteland High School merging back in 1965,” Edsell explained.

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