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TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA – It’s not too late to enroll your child in the newly forming seventh and eighth grade classes at Sequoyah High School. SHS is continuing to accept applications for the seventh and eighth grade classes 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 grade 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 fall and students will have the opportunity to compete 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 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. Classes at SHS begin August 8.

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 many orphans who came out of 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 the 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 nested on a beautiful campus five miles southwest of Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Sequoyah High School "Home of the Indians!" P.O. Box 520, Tahlequah, OK 74465             Sequoyah High School Alumni P.O. Box 187, Park Hill, OK 74451-0187 Sequoyah High School, an Indian boarding school, originated in 1871, when the Cherokee National Council passed an act setting up an orphan asylum to take care of many orphans that came out of the Civil War. Sequoyah High School's approximate 300 enrollment represents 42 tribes and 14 different states. Students are eligible to attend if they are members of federally recognized Indian tribes or one-fourth blood descendants of such members.