Modern Schools
Construction on the district's new high school, Tecumseh, was begun in late 1950 and was completed in March of 1952. The class of 1952, while not able to attend classes in the building, were privileged to hold Baccalaureate and Commencement exercises in the auditorium–gymnasium of the new complex in May of that year. The school was named after Tecumseh, a famous chief of the Shawnee Nation who lived in the area in the 19th century.
The completion of Tecumseh ushered in the fifth generation of schools to be built in Bethel Township. For the next seventeen years, the district would grow from about 1000 to 6800 students. New buildings, building additions and renovations would continue almost non-stop until 1969 when McAdams was completed and opened for use.
Beginning in the 1980–1981 school year, corporal punishment (paddling) was abolished in the district, in favor of the detention system, considered more contemporary and less cruel. Corporal punishment was not banned statewide until 2009.
Prior to the 1981–1982 school year, the elementary schools hosted grades K–6, the two junior high schools hosted grades 7–9, and the high school hosted grades 10–12. Thereafter, the district restructured such that the elementary schools only hosted grades K–5, the junior highs became middle schools hosting grades 6–8, and the high school hosted grades 9–12. To facilitate the influx of 9th graders to the high school, Oscar T. Hawke Elementary was closed and the building was incorporated into the high school campus.
Effective the 1989–1990 school year, the district's name changed from New Carlisle–Bethel Local Schools to Tecumseh Local School District, in order to alleviate confusion with Bethel Local Schools in nearby Miami County and Carlisle Local Schools in Carlisle, Ohio.
At the beginning of the 2011–2012 school year, Medway Elementary was closed, and the elementary schools were rearranged from neighborhood schools to grade-level schools. Donnelsville Elementary houses grades K–1, Park Layne Elementary houses grades 2–3, New Carlisle Elementary houses grades 4–5.
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