Sweet Briar Public School District 17 is a school district headquartered in the
Sweet Briar community, in
unincorporated Morton County,
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...
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The district, which serves grades K-8,
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Sweet Briar School looks ahead amid record enrollment of 22
is entirely in Morton County. In 2018 Jack Dura of the ''
Bismarck Tribune
''The Bismarck Tribune'' is a daily newspaper with a weekly audience of 82,000 unique readers, printed daily in Bismarck, North Dakota. Owned by Lee Enterprises, it is the only daily newspaper for south-central and southwest North Dakota.
Histo ...
'' described the school as "a modern throwback to the many rural schoolhouses that once dotted North Dakota."
[ In 2018 the district had a single teacher who also serves as principal.][ In 2019 the district had two teachers, and the principal/teacher, Sherilyn "Sheri" Johnson, announced she would retire.]Mandan High School
Mandan High School is a state school, public high school located in Mandan, North Dakota. It is the only high school within the Mandan Public Schools system, serving grades 9–12. In 2007 the Mandan Public School District renovated the high school ...
in Mandan
The Mandan are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains who have lived for centuries primarily in what is now North Dakota. They are enrolled in the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. About half of the Mandan still res ...
(of Mandan Public Schools
Mandan Public School District 1, also called Mandan Public Schools, is a school district headquartered in Mandan, North Dakota.
Located in Morton County, it serves Mandan and Harmon. The district takes high school students from the Sweet Briar ...
) or New Salem-Almont High School in New Salem (of New Salem-Almont School District).[
It is one of two schools that the Burleigh-Morton County Superintendent of Schools supervises, the other being the Little Heart School.]
History
The school was established around 1913. As a fire destroyed the first structure, the school district established another building opened made of yellow stucco that opened in 1936.[
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Operations
Dura noted in 2018 that the school has an abundance of technological tools for students.[
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Student body
In 2018 the district had 22 students in grades K-7 as there were no 8th graders at that time.[ In 2013 it had 13 students.][
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References
School districts in North Dakota
Education in Morton County, North Dakota
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