Originally,
West College Corner, Indiana, and
College Corner, Ohio, operated separate schools. Upon the advice of the Indiana and Ohio Attorneys General, the two towns' school boards organized a shared College Corner Union School in September 1893. Unlike later interstate school districts, which were formed under
interstate compacts with Congressional approval, no legislative approval was initially sought for the new school district. Instead, concurrent (but not joint) school boards of three members each oversaw the school and state funding was apportioned by enrollment. For the first school year, higher grades were held in Indiana while lower grades were held in Ohio. The new school building, which cost $12,000 and straddled the Indiana–Ohio state line, opened the fall of 1894.
Union Township School later merged with College Corner Union School. In 1921, the
College Corner Joint School District was formed to administer the school with funding from both states. Though the two sides shared a common superintendent, each board continued to meet separately, to satisfy an Indiana open meeting law. The school building was rebuilt in 1926, with the state line running through the flagpole, between the two entrances, and down the middle of the gymnasium's basketball court. In 1972, citing exemptions passed by the
Indiana and
Ohio General Assemblies in 1912. In 1995, a
federal magistrate merged the College Corner Joint School District and Union County School Corporation into the Union County–College Corner Joint School District. ==Governance==