Eagle Butte School District 20-1,[1] is a school district with its headquarters in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.[2] The district covers sections of Ziebach County and Dewey County.

The district and the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) jointly administer the Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School (C-EB), with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe being represented in the management process.[3] The BIE categorizes the school as BIE-operated.[4]

The school and the community lie within the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.[3]

History

As of 2021, the school buildings are scheduled to be replaced by the Bureau of Indian Education using funds from the Great American Outdoors Act.[5]

Operations

As of 1989 the BIE school entity and the school district have two separate school boards and two separate pools of employees, and the two entities also combine a jointly-operated school board. Kevin Woster of Rapid City Journal described the school as "a federal-state mix of money and staff" and that therefore its budget changes depending on how much money is available from South Dakota state government and/or the federal government.[6]

Academics

As of 1989 the students take both tests required by the South Dakota state government, including the SAT, and tests required by the federal government.[6]

Service area

Within Ziebach County it serves Eagle Butte.[7]

Within Dewey County it serves Green Grass, La Plant, Lantry, North Eagle Butte, and Swift Bird.[8]

The district has a total area of 1,646 square miles (4,260 km2).[3]

Campuses

The main school campus is partially in Eagle Butte and partially in North Eagle Butte.[9]

The system has dormitories for students in grades 1–12. Boys and girls are separated, and students in grades 1-6 are separated from those in grades 7–12.[10] As of 1989 the dormitories house Native American students who were rejected from other schools.[6]

Divisions

Divisions include:

  • High school (grades 9–12)
  • Junior high school (7-8)
  • Upper elementary school (3-6) - It is a part of the school district entity. As of 2021 it had about 390 students with all of them qualifying for free or reduced lunch (a mark of poverty) and 98% of them being Native American. There are twenty classrooms used for traditional education.[3]
  • Primary school (Kindergarten-2)
Alternative school
  • E.A.G.L.E. Center (for grades 7–12)

Student body

As of 2021 there were 1,143 students, with 98% being Native American.[3]

In 2009 the school had 800 students, including 30 in kindergarten and 150 in junior high school.[11]

In 1989 the majority of the students were Native American though there were also White American students.[6]

Academic achievement

In 1989 officials from the South Dakota state government criticized the management of the school. The management of Cheyenne-Eagle Butte stated that it is working to address the issue though it stated that the school did not have high enough scores and had too high of a dropout rate.[6]

School uniforms

The school district adopted school uniforms for students in Kindergarten and grades 7-8 for fall 2009.[12] The Cheyenne River Sioux tribe filed a lawsuit against the school district, saying that the code, announced shortly before the start of classes, forced inconvenience on tribal members.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Eagle Butte 20-1 Archived October 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine." South Dakota Department of Education. Retrieved on October 18, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Home". Eagle Butte School District 20-1. Retrieved August 6, 2021. 24 West Prairie Rd Eagle Butte, SD 57625
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "About". Eagle Butte School District 20-1. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School". Bureau of Indian Education. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Trump Administration Announces BIE's New Construction on Its School Campuses | Indian Affairs". www.bia.gov. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Woster, Kevin (October 8, 1989). "Indian education working at Eagle Butte". Rapid City Journal. p. B1. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Ziebach County, SD" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  8. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Dewey County, SD" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Home". Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School. Retrieved August 6, 2021. Cheyenne - Eagle Butte School 2004 E St. Eagle Butte, SD 57625 - Eagle Butte Map and North Eagle Butte Map
  10. ↑ "Dormitory". Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  11. 1 2 Brokaw, Chet. "Cheyenne tribe files suit over school dress code." Associated Press at USA Today. September 18, 2009. Retrieved on October 18, 2009.
  12. ↑ "Dress Code." Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School. Retrieved on October 18, 2009.

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