Sisseton High School

Sisseton High School
Address
516 8th Avenue West
Sisseton, South Dakota, 57262
United States
Coordinates 45°39′53″N 97°03′46″W / 45.6647°N 97.0627°W / 45.6647; -97.0627Coordinates: 45°39′53″N 97°03′46″W / 45.6647°N 97.0627°W / 45.6647; -97.0627
Information
Type Public high school
School district Sisseton School District 54-2
NCES District ID 4600053[1]
Superintendent Stephen Schulte[2]
NCES School ID 460005301239[3]
Principal Jim Frederick[4]
Teaching staff 24[3]
Enrollment 256[3] (2014)
Campus type Rural
Color(s)           Red and black
Athletics conference SDHSAA NE-A
Team name Redmen[5]
Website sisseton.k12.sd.us/shs/SitePages/Home.aspx

Sisseton High School (SHS) is a public high school in Sisseton, South Dakota and the only high school in the Sisseton, South Dakota school district. The school reported 256 students for the 2013-2014 school year.[3] The school's athletic teams play as part of the SDHSAA Northeast Conference as the "Redmen".[4]

Of the 270 students, 98 are Native American.[3] Disagreements and controversy among Native American students and community members over the school's use of a Native American mascot has received media attention. In 2015 a group of girls' basketball players who were students of the nearby school Tiospa Zina Tribal School wore shirts saying "Not your Mascot" to a game at SHS.[6] The students had previously attended SHS but had later transferred to the tribal school in Agency Village on the Lake Traverse Reservation. Several of the students' grandparents had previously protested the mascot in the 90s. The schools superintendent Stephen Schulte has said that there is support for the name.[7][8] The T-shirts sparked at least one fight.[2]

In 2010 a student was arrested for stockpiling weapons and bomb-making materials in his bedroom. He had also written about wanting to blow up the school.[9] He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2011.[10]

Veblin High School was merged with SHS at some point in the past.

References

  1. ↑ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Sisseton School District 54-2". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved Feb 7, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "According to student, fight broke out over t-shirt". ksfy.com. ABC News. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Sisseton High School - 01". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Member School Directory - Sisseton High School". SDHSAA. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Redmen Athletics". Sisseton High School. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Skytta, Rachel (3 February 2015). "Push To Change Sisseton 'Redmen' Mascot". KDLT News. NBC News. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Girls lobby to change 'Redmen' school nickname in Sisseton". The Daily Republic. Associated Press. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  8. ↑ Grandstrand, Katherine (6 February 2015). "Teens rally for name change". Aberdeen News. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "S.D. teen planned to bomb school, police say". Boston.com. Associated Press. 10 September 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  10. ↑ Dunsmoor, Ben (17 February 2011). "Sisseton Student Going To Prison For Bomb Plot". Keloland.com. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
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