Oglala Lakota County School District 65-1 (OLCSD) is a public school district headquartered in the Batesland School in
Batesland, South Dakota. It is in the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ( lkt, Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located entirely within the U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the Gr ...
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It serves all of
Oglala Lakota County
Oglala Lakota County (known as Shannon County until May 2015) is a county in southwestern South Dakota, United States. The population was 13,672 at the 2020 census. Oglala Lakota County does not have a functioning county seat; Hot Springs in ne ...
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It was formerly known as the Shannon County School District 65-1 (SCSD). It adopted its current name in 2016. The process to adopt the current name began on July 1, 2015.
Curriculum
compared to the area
Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools, OLCSD schools have less content geared towards Native American culture while they have more advanced technology than the BIE schools.
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Operations
In 2015, according to the editorial board of the ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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'', the district had one school it deemed to be in need of replacing but that the other three were recently built. The editorial board wrote, "the gap in quality between the public school facilities and the four distressed BIE schools is a touchy subject on the reservation."[
In 2018 the district created a school safety plan with its rural location in mind, as police response would not be at the level it would be in a suburban or urban area. Brandon Ecoffey of '' Lakota Times'' described the plan as "extremely aggressive, and somewhat controversial".
Previously the district did not operate a high school building and required high school students staying with the district to attend ]virtual school
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. The first physical high school, Lakota Tech High School, opened in 2020.
Schools
High school:
* Lakota Tech High School ( Pine Ridge)
K-8 schools:
* Batesland School (Batesland)
** It opened in 1926 and its initial enrollment was below 20. By 2001 its enrollment was 210.
* Red Shirt School ( Hermosa)
* Rockyford School ( Porcupine)
* Wolf Creek School
** By 2002 its enrollment was 550.
See also
* Pine Ridge School - Bureau of Indian Education school in Pine Ridge
References
External links
Oglala Lakota County School District
School districts in South Dakota
Education in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota
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