Fort Branch Marlette High School, commonly known as Fort Branch High School, was a public high school

High school

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 located in Fort Branch

Fort Branch, Indiana

Fort Branch is the largest town and second largest community in Gibson County, Indiana, United States after Princeton. The population was 2,320 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fort Branch is located at ....

, Indiana

Indiana

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History

Fort Branch High School was one of the three high schools under South Gibson School Corporation

South Gibson School Corporation

-The School Corporation:The South Gibson School Corporation is the largest of the three public school governing institutions in enrollment and territory covered in Gibson County, Indiana as well as one of the ten largest in enrollment in Southwestern Indiana...

 that merged into Gibson Southern High School

Gibson Southern High School

Gibson Southern High School is a public high school located near Fort Branch, Indiana in Gibson County.-School Description:Completed in 1974, Gibson Southern was created as a consolidation of Fort Branch Marlette, Haubstadt Johnson, and Owensville Montgomery High Schools...

 in 1974. Like the current Fort Branch Community School, Fort Branch High School's mascot was the Twigs,and the school colors were black and gold. Fort Branch was part of the Pocket Athletic Conference

Pocket Athletic Conference

The Pocket Athletic Conference is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Its members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools located in Dubois, Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, and Warrick counties. Only one, Tecumseh, is a 1A...

shortly before the merging. The building was then used as the Fort Branch Middle School (grades 6-8) until 1982 when the Fort Branch Community School building was completed. The school was then subsequently demolished. The original Fort Branch High School gymnasium continues to be used for community functions.