Eight Mile School District #6 is a school district headquartered in
Trenton, North Dakota. It operates one K-12 school, Trenton School.
It is entirely in
Williams County.
Status
From 1987 to 2008 the
Bureau of Indian Education
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(BIE) and its predecessor agency, the Office of Indian Education (OIE) of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs
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(BIA), funded the school district, with, in 2008, it making up about $1.333 million in revenue, or one third of the district's revenue. In 2008 the BIE ruled that as the school district is not controlled by a Native American tribe, it accordingly should no longer receive BIE funding, and that it should never have gotten BIE money to begin with. As a result, the district chose not to renew contracts of 12 certified employees.
The
North Dakota Department of Indian Affairs
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Etymology
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still lists it as a tribal school.
Operations
In March 2020 the district applied to have instructional weeks of four days each instead of five days. In April 2020, Kirsten Baesler, the state superintendent of education, asked for further information from Eight Mile,
and approved Eight Mile later in the month. The district hoped to have better school attendance figures and to give students time for makeup work and professional development for teachers.
Student body
In 1999 the school had 189 students. In 2003 it had 242 students, something Daryl Flagen, the elementary school principal and federal program coordinator, credited to academic performance in the district.
In 2020 the district had 290 students.
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Academic performance
In 2003 the OIE, the parent agency of what became the BIE, ranked the school as "outstanding" due to its performance on standardized tests. Around that period 77% of people graduating went on to tertiary education or other means of further education.[
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References
External links
Eight Mile School District #6
School districts in North Dakota
Education in Williams County, North Dakota
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