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Muncie Community Schools Putting Some Properties Up For Sale

By The Star Press | Published on in Education, Local News
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For-sale signs – in one form or another – will be posted at three elementary schools, Northside Middle School, and the Ross Community Center – all properties of the Muncie Community Schools.

The Star Press reports the school system’s emergency manager will consider purchase offers on those properties to help bail out the financially stressed school district.

Each school property is located on desirable property.  Regarding the closed elementary schools, Storer Elementary rests on 18-and-a-half acres in a desirable residential neighborhood on the city’s north side. Sutton Elementary on Muncie’s south side occupies four acres, and Mitchell Elementary School sits on a nine-acre site.  All three schools were closed earlier this year. The Ross Community Center is located on West 10th Street.

The 26-acre Northside Middle School property abuts Ball State University’s northern campus edge and Scheumann Stadium along Bethel Avenue.  Ball State has expressed interest in buying the property. The university already also owns the former Anthony Elementary School, which was converted into the Muncie Community Schools Administration Building. That property is on Oakwood Avenue, immediately to the east of the Northside Middle School.

The school district is bound by state law to notify local governments within the boundaries of the school system, and Indiana’s public colleges and universities to be given 30 days to make an offer to purchase.  Ball State has the right of first refusal for any property to be sold.

The emergency manager will take purchase offers from local government and universities until Oct. 16.