Editing Beech Grove, Indiana (section)

==Education==
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The city has its own school district, the Beech Grove City Schools, but [[Franklin Township Community School Corporation]] also serves some of this region. Beech Grove City Schools consists of five facilities (Hornet Park, Central Elementary, South Grove Intermediate, Beech Grove Middle, and [[Beech Grove High School|Beech Grove Hig]]h). Its high school athletic teams, the "[[Hornet]]s" (colors: orange and black) participate as members of the statewide [[Indiana High School Athletic Association]] (IHSAA), the Marion County Athletic Association, and the Indiana Crossroads Conference.

The city's first school was opened in 1907 in the upstairs of the Wheat Grocery Store at 423 Main Street. Between 1909 and 1929, a series of school buildings and additions were constructed in the 1000 block of Main; only the original gymnasium remains from these structures. The high school was begun in 1917 and its first graduating class was in 1922.

A new combined junior high/high school was built in 1955 at 1248 Buffalo Street, just northwest of the existing school site. The previous complex became Central Elementary. The new facility operated on a split-day schedule, with high school students attending in the morning and junior high students attending in the afternoon.

By 1960, the city's growth to the south prompted the building of South Grove Elementary (later Intermediate) at the 800 block of South 9th Avenue. With the population growth, the present high school was built in 1966 just east of the 4000 block of South Emerson Avenue and the 1955 facility remained as the junior high (later middle) school.

Before the 1990s, the kindergarten education experience was only offered in the city by private specialty schools (past examples being Cassidy's and Happy Time). As part of the state's trend to incorporate this age level within the public schools, the city school system joined with the city's Parks Department in the development of Hornet Park, a dual-use facility built on the grounds of the former Olympia Club (a private swimming/recreation club). Kindergarten (and, added recently, 1st grade) classes are held in the south part, while the city offers meeting rooms and exercise facilities in the north part.

Within the traditional focus in Indiana on high-school basketball, the [[Beech Grove High School|Beech Grove]] Hornets have earned two [[Indiana High School Athletic Association]] (IHSAA) State Championships. Its girls team won first, in Class 3A of the 2003 tournament. From that team, senior [[Katie Gearlds]] won both the IHSAA's Patricia Roy Mental Attitude Award (for Class 3A) and the "Miss Basketball" honor for the entire State.  She went on to the [[WNBA]]'s [[Seattle Storm]] in the 2007 season.  Its boys team won its only State Championship, also in Class 3A, of the 2022 tournament.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ambrogi |first1=Mark |date=March 27, 2022 |title=Beech Grove basketball team is victorious at State |url=https://ss-times.com/beech-grove-state-basketball-victory/ |access-date=May 30, 2022 |website=Southside Times}}</ref> During the non-class years before 1996, the school had earned only three Sectional (equivalent to District in some states) titles (two by the boys' team in 1966 and 1992, and one by the girls' team in 1978);  since the change to classes in Indiana high-school basketball, the boys' team has won one Class 3A Sectional title (2008).

Beech Grove High School's "Marching Hornets" band program has earned four Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) State Band Finals berths in its history and earned their first ISSMA Regional Gold rating in nine years in 2005. The Marching Hornets continue to achieve great levels of success on the marching music field. After 2005, the band has returned to the level of success that they had during the James Williams years. They have grown to become one of ISSMAs Class C "powerhouses" in the South. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, the Marching Hornets returned to the state finals for the first time in 19 years, where they placed 5th in Class C on 2009, 7th in Class C in 2010, and 2nd in Class C in 2011. They would continue to reach state finals in Class C in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016. During the 2017 season, Beech Grove High School's growing enrollment reclassified the Marching Hornets as a Class B program. The Marching Hornets would take 5th place in 2017— their inaugural season in Class B.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Indiana State School Music Association |url=http://www.issma.net/statembplacings.php}}</ref>

Also within the city limits are the Holy Name of Jesus School ([[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]], grades pre-school to 8), built in 1922. Many students from Holy Name of Jesus continue their high school studies at Beech Grove High School or the nearby [[Roncalli High School (Indiana)|Roncalli High School]].

Beech Grove has a [[public library]], a branch of the [[Indianapolis Public Library]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.indypl.org/locations | title=Locations & Hours | publisher=Indianapolis Public Library | access-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref> For many years the city maintained its own library, but in April 2016, the boards of the Indianapolis and the Beech Grove public libraries voted to merge, with the Beech Grove library becoming the 23rd branch library of the Indianapolis library system on June 1, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indy Library Board approves merger of Beech Grove Library|url=http://wishtv.com/2016/04/26/indy-library-board-approves-merger-of-beech-grove-library/|website=WISHTV.com|access-date=April 26, 2016|date=April 28, 2016}}</ref>