The School Board exists for the purpose of a governing system for providing a free, public education in preschool special education, and grades K-12 for children in the Maconaquah School Corporation.

Maconaquah School Corporation is located in the southern portion of Miami County, Indiana. Located approximately two miles from the town of Bunker Hill, Maconaquah schools serve six townships, nine small towns and communities as well as the Grissom Air Reserve Base. Students from the high school, middle school and two elementary schools are primarily transported by school bus from a radius of approximately eight miles.

Maconaquah Schools were named after Frances Slocum, a native of the Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, area who was taken as a child by Delaware Indians in 1778. She was later adopted into the Miami Indian tribe in Indiana and married a local chief. Her name, Ma-con-a-quah, means "Little Bear Woman." Later, over fifty years after her abduction, her surviving brother and sister traveled to Indiana from Pennsylvania and were reunited with her. Maconaquah chose to remain in Indiana with the Miami Indian family she had grown to love.