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Sequoyah High School has announced plans to include 7th and 8th grade classes to the curriculum beginning with the 2006-07 school year.Sequoyah High School has announced plans to include 7th and 8th grade classes to the curriculum beginning with the 2006-07 school year.
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA – Sequoyah High School (SHS) is continuing to grow and will expand to include classes for area seventh and eighth graders for the 2006-07 school year.
“We are going to start off with very small classes,” said Gina Stanley, SHS superintendent. “We are only going to accept 25 students in each new grade.”
“I’d like to see us eventually expand to have elementary classes,” said Amon Baker, chairman of the SHS school board. “It’s a good time for the school to grow. I’d like to see that.”
Administrators at SHS decided to expand the high school to include seventh and eighth grades after parents and community members expressed a desire to send their children to SHS at a younger age. Seventh and eighth grade classrooms will be housed in the new multipurpose center that is expected to be complete this spring, and students will have the opportunity to participate in athletic competitions against area middle schools. Seventh and eighth graders will be admitted as day students only and not have access to the dormitories.
“We were getting calls daily,” Stanley said. “That was when we knew there was definitely a need for the type of education that Sequoyah has to offer for the younger kids.”
To apply, students must have a physical examination, a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) card, a minimum grade point average of 2.25 as verified by a school transcript with Achievement Test Scores, reference forms from an administrator, a teacher and a counselor from previous school sent directly to Sequoyah High School, recent photograph, immunization record, birth certificate and Social Security card.
Applications for seventh and eighth grade are available at the SHS office or by calling 918-453-5400.
Sequoyah High School, a boarding school for Native American students, originated in 1871 as an orphan asylum to take care of the many orphans who survived the Civil War. It has since served as the Sequoyah Orphan Training School and the Sequoyah Vocational School. Now it is known as Sequoyah High School, named for Sequoyah, a scholar who developed the Cherokee syllabary. In November 1985, the Cherokee Nation resumed operation of SHS. It is regionally and state-accredited for grades 9-12 and has become the school of choice for more than 300 high school students every year. From its humble beginning as a school with one building and 40 acres of land, SHS has grown into a modern institution covering more than 90 acres with a dozen major buildings nestled on a beautiful campus five miles southwest of Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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