Sisters High School

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Sisters High School
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Location
Sisters High School
1700 W McKinney Butte Rd,

Sisters
,
Oregon
97759

United States
Coordinates 44°17′47″N121°34′34″W / 44.2964°N 121.5761°W / 44.2964; -121.5761
Information
Type Public
Established1937 (1937)
School district Sisters School District
NCES School ID 411149000073 [1]
PrincipalSteven Stancliff [2]
Teaching staff25.01 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment396 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio15.83 [1]
ColorsBlack and white    [3]
Athletics conference OSAA 3A-4 Mountain Valley Conference [3]
Team nameOutlaws [3]
Website highschool.ssd6.org

Sisters High School is a public high school in Sisters, Oregon, United States. It is a part of the Sisters School District.

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History

The first school in Sisters was opened in 1885. It was a one-room schoolhouse about two miles north of the center of town. [4] This building was replaced by one in Sisters proper in 1890, with a two-room schoolhouse being built in 1900 on the site of Sisters Elementary School and expanded to six rooms in 1912. The high school finally received its own building in 1937, adding a library, office, and gymnasium in four Quonset huts during an expansion in 1949. The high school was among the first in Oregon to teach on-site conservation classes.

Closing Sisters High School became a significant political issue in the mid-1960s. Four referenda were held on the issue on whether to close the high school. The final one was held in July 1967; 155 people voted in favor of the closure and 39 people voted against. [5] Accordingly, the district began sending high school students to Redmond High School. At the time, 80 high school students lived in Sisters. The Redmond Spokesman and The Bulletin argued the decision was correct, stating that the Sisters district had an insufficient tax base to provide the funding to keep the high school open. [6] [5]

By 1989, there was a significant increase of students in the Sisters area, causing the district to have several options on how to deal with the issues. [7] Due to this, the school board voted to reopen the local high school in a new junior/senior high school building in 1992. [8] [9] The old high school building was repurposed as the school district offices.

In 2023, a television studio at Sisters High School was built. The student body had significant input in the design and a role in the building of it. [10] Weekly news reports began in 2024. [11] In 2024 a class on audiovisual media, titled, "Outlaw Media," began to be in the course catalog. [12]

Notable alumni


References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Search for Public Schools - Sisters High School (411149000073)". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved November 6, 2025.
  2. ↑ Kanzig, Charlie. "Stancliff named Sisters High School principal". The Nugget Newspaper. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 "OSAA - Sisters High School". www.osaa.org.
  4. ↑ "From One Room Schoolhouse to Today". Our History. Sisters School District. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Time to bind up wounds, start moving ahead again". The Bulletin . Bend, Oregon. July 21, 1967. p.  4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Redmond will welcome Sisters students". The Redmond Spokesman . Redmond, Oregon. July 27, 1967. p.  2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Hart, Karen (December 12, 1989). "Sisters school board looks at options in space dilemma". The Bulletin . Bend, Oregon. p.  B-2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Van Moorlhem, Tracy (February 13, 1992). "Sisters students face choice: old or new?". The Bulletin . p.  B-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Van Moorlhem, Tracy (February 13, 1992). "Completion due in August: Construction runs on time, budget". The Bulletin . p.  B-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Warren, Isabella (November 27, 2023). "'For a school our size, it's pretty impressive': Students at Sisters High build new television studio". KTVZ . Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  11. ↑ Lindstrom, Eric (March 12, 2024). "Sisters High A/V club producing weekly newscasts from new studio". KBNZ-LD . Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  12. ↑ Nieto, Olivia (September 24, 2024). "SHS launching 'Outlaw Media'". The Nugget . Retrieved April 8, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Dr. Susan Hyde". Sisters High School Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
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