Muncie Southside High School (SHS) in Muncie, Indiana, is a public high school which had an enrollment of 1,075 during the 2007/2008 school year. The school is part of the Muncie Community Schools Corp. It opened on September 6, 1962. The current location of Muncie Southside High School is 1601 E 26th Street.
On September 6, 1962, 706 sophomores, 369 juniors, and 165 seniors scurried through the doors of Muncie Southside High School. As they saun...
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Muncie Southside High School (SHS) in Muncie, Indiana, is a public high school which had an enrollment of 1,075 during the 2007/2008 school year. The school is part of the Muncie Community Schools Corp. It opened on September 6, 1962. The current location of Muncie Southside High School is 1601 E 26th Street.
On September 6, 1962, 706 sophomores, 369 juniors, and 165 seniors scurried through the doors of Muncie Southside High School. As they sauntered the wide, untrodden corridors, they observed decorative mosaic tile designs and glass-paneled stairwells. But what impressed them the most were the bright, clean colors.
Bright colors would likely impress these pupils, for 534 of them had previously attended the old Central High School building in downtown Muncie. But they were now the inaugural students of Muncie’s new high school.
Southside’s opening in 1962 created the first new high school in Muncie since 1915. (The only exception is Burns, which then served fewer than 300 students...
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