It is the first Indiana school to be picked for the program.
Out of 1,780 Indiana public schools, 162 earned this distinction.
It is frequently the only Indiana school to appear in these rankings.
As a result, most Indiana high schools of the era had what today are considered extremely small enrollments.
Chatard is one of only three Indiana high schools to win a football and basketball championship in the same academic year.
Indiana high schools boast a tradition of producing top caliber basketball players.
In the late 1880s, he became a teacher at the Indiana School for the Deaf.
The name was changed to Indiana School for the Deaf.
During the same period he served as superintendent of the Lawrenceburg, Indiana public schools.
But she is the reason anyone at all is talking about the small Indiana school known as Valpo today.