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Brainerd Public School District
Brainerd Public Schools (BPS), also known as ISD 181, is a school district headquartered in Brainerd, Minnesota. In addition to Brainerd it serves Baxter, Minnesota, Baxter, Fort Ripley, Minnesota, Fort Ripley, Garrison, Minnesota, Garrison, Merrifield, Minnesota, Merrifield, and most of Nisswa, Minnesota, Nisswa. History Jerry Walseth became the superintendent circa 2000. The Minnesota Association of School Administrators gave Walseth the Administrator of Excellence Award. In 2008 a referendum for school funding failed, and as a result the district closed two schools. Laine Larson became the superintendent in 2016. In 2021 the Minnesota Association of School Administrators gave her the Kay E. Jacobs Memorial Award. Schools ; High school * Brainerd High School (Minnesota), Brainerd High School ; Middle school * Forestview Middle School ; Elementary school * Baxter Elementary School * Garfield Elementary School * Harrison Elementary School * Lowell Elementary School * Nisswa El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brainerd, Minnesota
Brainerd is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 14,395 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Crow Wing County. Brainerd straddles the Mississippi River several miles upstream from its confluence with the Crow Wing River, having been founded as a site for a railroad crossing above the confluence. Brainerd is the principal city of the Brainerd Micropolitan Area, a micropolitan area covering Cass and Crow Wing counties and with a combined population of 96,189 at the 2020 census. The city is well known for being the partial setting of the 1996 film '' Fargo''. History The area that is now Brainerd was formerly Ojibwe territory. Brainerd was first seen by European settlers on Christmas Day in 1805, when Zebulon Pike stopped there while searching for the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Crow Wing Village, a fur and logging community near Fort Ripley, brought settlers to the area in the mid-19th century. In those early years, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
