New England Public School District No. 9, also known as New England Public Schools (NEPS), is a school district headquartered in
New England, North Dakota
New England is a city in Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 683 at the 2020 census.
New England was founded in 1887, predating all other settlements in Hettinger County by many years. The name recognizes that many ...
. It includes New England High School.
It serves New England in
Hettinger County, and it also includes sections of
Adams,
Slope, and
Stark counties.
In 1985 the high school had 85 students. This means the students had low student teacher ratios, allowing for teachers to give attention to individuals.
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History
Noel Lunde served as superintendent. He resigned during the 2005–2006 school year, with him leaving at the end of the school year.
In 2020 the
Central Elementary Public School District 32 dissolved, and was divided between
Bowman County School District No. 1 and NEPS.
Athletics and extracurricular activities
In 1985 Kim Maixner of the ''
Bismarck Tribune
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'' wrote that the institution "has prided itself on its strong athletic department for many years."
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, and National Honors Society have chapters in New England High as of 1985.[
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High School Football
The now-defunct New England High School football program won four North Dakota High School Activities Association 9-man state championships from 1988 to 1997 before the team dissolved in 2006 due to low participation numbers.
The cooperative team of New England- Regent-New England St. Mary's won the 1988 state championship over Hope-Page-Clifford-Galesburg by a score of 36–33.[https://ndhsaanow.com/champions/football] The game, nicknamed the "Hyphen Bowl" in North Dakota, was featured in the 1989 '' Christian Science Monitor'' story, "`Hyphen Bowl' a Barometer of Rural Decline".
New England-Regent then won the first of three consecutive championships in 1995. The Tigers defeated Thompson 21–14 for the 1995 championship, followed that up with a 23–6 win over Hillsboro in 1996, and then defeated Rolette-Wolford 16–14 for the 1997 title.Mike Schatz
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, the coach of all four championship teams, erected a sign on his land outside of New England in 2016 to celebrate the city's football success. Schatz was inducted into the North Dakota High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2010. In his career, he compiled 203 wins and was named 9-man coach of the year three times. He also coached New England to a state runner-up finish in 1985.
Facing the possibility of not having enough male students to continue fielding its own team, New England formed a football cooperative agreement in 2006 with neighboring Dickinson Trinity, but exited that agreement in 2016 to form a new cooperative with Mott-Regent in 2017. They now play as part of the Mott-Regent-New England Wildfire. In 2014, the New England Booster Club began efforts to revive football in the community by starting a youth program. They play teams from communities across the southwest North Dakota region. Beginning in 2022, the schools renamed the high school and junior high football teams the Hettinger County Huskies.
References
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External links
New England Public Schools (nepstigers.com)
New England Public Schools (new-england.k12.nd.us)
School districts in North Dakota
Education in Adams County, North Dakota
Hettinger County, North Dakota
Slope County, North Dakota
Education in Stark County, North Dakota