Mitchell High School (South Dakota)

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Mitchell High School
Address
Mitchell High School (South Dakota)
920 North Capital Street

Mitchell
,
South Dakota
57301

United States
Coordinates 43°43′07″N98°00′59″W / 43.7186°N 98.0165°W / 43.7186; -98.0165
Information
School districtMitchell School District 17-2
PrincipalJoe Childs
Teaching staff48.01 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment858 (2022-23) [1]
 •  Grade 9 250
 •  Grade 10 174
 •  Grade 11 172
 •  Grade 12 205
Student to teacher ratio16.68 [1]
Color(s)   Black and Gold
Fight song On For Mitchell
Athletics conference Eastern South Dakota Conference
MascotCornelius the Kernel
Nickname Kernels
RivalHuron Tigers
Feeder schoolsMitchell Middle School
Website Mitchell High School

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.

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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]

State Championships
SportYears
Boys basketball [7] 1932, 1935, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1964, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2024
Football [8] 2016
Girls tennis [9] 2019

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

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References

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  2. ↑ "Back in Time". Mitchell Carnegie. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "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.
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  14. ↑ "Mitchell hosts annual Show Choir Classic". Mitchell Republic. March 17, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
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