On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 8:00 a.m., the Washington Discovery Academy will start taking applications.  Online applications are available on the Plymouth Community School Corporation web site as well as the Washington Elementary School and the Washington Discovery Academy page.  If you are not able to apply online, paper and pencil applications are available at the four elementary schools as well as the Plymouth Administration Building. 

Take a hand in how your child learns.  If Project Based Learning appeals to you, Washington Discovery Academy is the place for your children.  This academy is a tuition-free school of choice!

Each grade level team will be keeping you informed about how they are implementing PBL in their classrooms through a Weebly page. The teachers will be trained in Weebly after the holidays, so make sure to check back!!!

Washington Discovery Academy application will go live January 4th. A link will be available on the Plymouth Community School webpage. More information to come!!!

Plymouth Community School Corporation will be holding an open meeting for discussion of redistricting of attendance boundaries on December 12, 2011 at 6:30 pm.  The meeting will be held at Menominee Elementary School located at 815 Discovery Lane, Plymouth, IN. 

The Washington teachers went through an extensive 3 day training this past summer to prepare for the opening of Washington Discovery Academy in the fall of 2012. Buck Institute for Education sent two representatives to train the teachers on the concept of Project Based Learning. The training was a huge success!! Each grade level launched their project this fall that they began planning at the summer training. Click the link below to view a slideshow of the training.

Summer Training Slideshow

In the last few years the balance of demographic factors has gotten skewed in our four elementary schools. We are coming very close to the same situation we had five years ago when Washington Elementary School did not have Title I services. For this reason, it is imperative that we go through a redistricting process again this year. Dr. Jerome McKibben, a specialist in the process of redistricting, will lead the process. Our first meeting will start at 6:30 on Wednesday, November 16 at the Menominee Elementary cafeteria. Dr. McKibben will present his "rough draft" of the plan for redistricting. He will be available for comments, to answer questions, and explain his process. Parents are welcome to attend. The application process for Washington Discovery Academy will begin after the redistricting is finalized.