Eagle Butte High School is a high school in

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established in 1996. It is a school with only one hallway, a single floor, and is built into a hill for better heating efficiency. It is part of

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History

Eagle Butte High School was built in the spring of 1996. It was named after a former one-room schoolhouse in the Cypress Hills called "Eagle Butte School". In the fall of 1996, 220 students – mostly registered in grade 10 – began study at Eagle Butte; coming from Redcliff, Irvine, Schuler, Seven Persons, Ralston and surrounding areas. The school now offers a full range of high school programs, from

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Student body

Generally the students of Eagle Butte come from the feeder schools which are part of the Prairie Rose Regional School Division No. 8. Students come from communities or farms and ranches in or around Dunmore,

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, Elkwater,

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, Suffield, Seven Persons, and Redcliff.

Athletics

Eagle Butte has programs in the following sports:

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, and a combined

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team with McCoy High School in Medicine Hat.

References

External links

Eagle Butte High School
(Official website)
Prairie Rose Regional School Division No. 8
High schools in Alberta Educational institutions established in 1996 1996 establishments in Alberta {{Alberta-school-stub