(New Carlisle, IN) - New Prairie students will be returning to in-person instruction within the school buildings on a full time basis.  The New Prairie United School Corporation Board of Directors voted Monday night to go from 50 percent to 100 percent attendance in all of the K-12 buildings. 

Schools Superintendent, Paul White, said a recent survey revealed 66 percent of parents with children in the elementary schools wanted 100-percent in-person attendance in the buildings.  He indicated more than 50-percent of parents of students at the middle school and high school wanted students back in the buildings full time.

Grades K-5 are scheduled to return to school on October 12 with secondary, grades 6 through 12, returning on October 19.