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Mitchell High School (South Dakota)

Mitchell High School is a public high school located in Mitchell, South Dakota. It serves students in grades 9 through 12, and is the only high school in the Mitchell School District.

History

High school classes were held in the Central School until 1909, when a new Mitchell High School was built.[2]

By the 2010s, there was an alternative school, Second Chance HS, for at-risk students that provided a small, more customized learning environment.[3]

Demographics

The location and nature of Mitchell High School is rural.[3]The student body of Mitchell High School is 85 percent white, five percent Native American, five percent Hispanic, one percent African-American, one percent Asian, and three percent of students identify as a part of two or more races.[4]

Athletics

The school athletic teams are the Mitchell Kernels; the moniker was adopted in the 1930s.[5] The school mascot is called Cornelius.[3] Both are references to the Mitchell Corn Palace.[3]

Kernel athletic teams compete in the Eastern South Dakota Conference.[6]

Performing arts

In February 2017, MHS opened the largest high school auditorium in the state of South Dakota.[10]

MHS has a competitive show choir, "Friend de Coup".[11] FDC won a national-level competition in 2000 and won the state competition sanctioned by the South Dakota High School Activities Association all three years the contest was held (2016–18).[12][13] The school also hosts an annual competition.[14]

Other activities

The school student newspaper, The Kernel, was cut due to budgetary pressures in 2017, but remained in publication as a club activity in association with the local regular newspaper The Daily Republic.[15]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b c "Mitchell High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  2. ^ "Back in Time". Mitchell Carnegie. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Inside the High School Classroom". The Science Teacher. September 2019. pp. 56ff – via Gale General OneFile.
  4. ^ "Mitchell High School - Student Body". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  5. ^ "Cormelius' roots go back 50 years". Mitchell Republic. March 9, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  6. ^ Sabato, Nick (August 5, 2020). "Mitchell to propose limited fan attendance for fall sports". Mitchell Republic. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  7. ^ "SDHSAA State Championships - Boys basketball". South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  8. ^ Wek, Nate (November 12, 2016). "2016 11AA Championship: Mitchell Wins First State Title". South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  9. ^ "Mitchell earns first team title, Krajewski wins top flight singles at Class A State GIrls' Tennis Tournament". Dakota News Now. October 8, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  10. ^ "Opening of Mitchell (S.D.) district performing arts center delayed". American School & University. January 17, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  11. ^ "SCC: Viewing School - Mitchell High School". Show Choir Community. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  12. ^ "SCNF Past Results". FAME. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  13. ^ Traxler, Marcus (February 16, 2019). "Show stopped: Format issues lead SD to abandon state show choir competition". Mitchell Republic. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  14. ^ "Mitchell hosts annual Show Choir Classic". Mitchell Republic. March 17, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  15. ^ "Fostering the future: The Daily Republic revives local high school newspaper". Editor & Publisher. January 2017. p. 14 – via Gale General OneFile.
  16. ^ Charles Moritz (ed.), Current Biography Yearbook 1967, H. W. Wilson Company, 1968, p. 265.
  17. ^ Matt Zimmer, "Sports Heroes: Mike Miller", Argus Leader, September 28, 2016.

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