The West Hancock Community Schools were alerted to mold growth in some of their high school classrooms in the latter part of July and early August. The area was very specific to the south side of the building and the district began to clean these areas. After cleaning the rooms they continued to experience issues with mold growth.

West Hancock Community Schools Superintendent Jason McLaughlin published a letter to West Hancock students, parents and community members notifying them of the situation. In it, he wrote, “Last week we reached out to a company to do testing in some areas to gather data in order to find out what was occurring. Yesterday we received the test results and have been in contact with an environmental engineer, mechanical engineer and cleaning service to put together a

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