Sisters School District
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Sisters School District 6 (SSD), also known as Sisters Public Schools, is a school district headquartered in Sisters, Oregon. It operates Sisters Elementary School, Sisters Middle School, and Sisters High School.
The school district covers a portion of Deschutes County, and includes Sisters and Black Butte Ranch.[1]
History
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Circa 1927 Sisters High School first opened.[2]
Whether to close Sisters High School became a significant political issue in the mid-1960s. Four referendums were held on the issue on whether to close the high school. In the final one, in July 1967, 155 people voted in favor of the closure and 39 people voted against.[3] Accordingly, the district began sending high school students to Redmond High School. At the time, 80 high school students lived in Sisters. The Redmond Spokesman argued the decision was correct, stating that the Sisters district had an insufficient tax base in keeping open the high school.[2] The Bulletin of Bend, Oregon also argued that the decision was the correct one, due to insufficient funding.[3]
By 1989 there was a significant increase of students, causing the district to have several options on how to deal with the issues.[4]
In 1992 Sisters High School was to reopen,[5] and it was to go in a junior and senior high school building opening that year.[6] At the time, the number of students at Redmond High School was increasing. Sisters-based students who were scheduled to be in the 12th grade in the 1992–1993 school year could stay at Redmond High if they wished, and students scheduled to be in the 11th grade could have potentially done so if they argued that their academic progress would be hindered by switching schools. All students who were to be sophomores at that time were required to move to Sisters High.[5]
In 2015, the superintendent, Jim Golden, took a new superintendent position at Albany School District.[7]
In 2023 a television studio at Sisters High School was built. The student body had significant input in the design and a role in the building of it.[8] Weekly news reports began in 2024.[9] In 2024 a class on audiovisual media, titled, "Outlaw Media," began to be in the course catalog.[10]
The current Sisters Elementary facility opened in September 2024.[11] The previous facility was converted into a recreation center.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Geography Division (December 18, 2020). 2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Deschutes County, OR (PDF) (Map). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2025-04-08. - Text list
- ^ a b "Redmond will welcome Sisters students". The Redmond Spokesman. Redmond, Oregon. 1967-07-27. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Time to bind up wounds, start moving ahead again". The Bulletin. Bend, Oregon. 1967-07-21. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hart, Karen (1989-12-12). "Sisters school board looks at options in space dillemma". The Bulletin. Bend, Oregon. p. B-2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Van Moorlhem, Tracy (1992-02-13). "Sisters students face choice: old or new?". The Bulletin. p. B-1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Van Moorlhem, Tracy (1992-02-13). "Completion due in August: Construction runs on time, budget". The Bulletin. p. B-1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bleyer, Kelly (2015-03-11). "Sisters Schools Seek New Superintendent". KBND. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ Warren, Isabella (2023-11-27). "'For a school our size, it's pretty impressive': Students at Sisters High build new television studio". KTVZ. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ Lindstrom, Eric (2024-03-12). "Sisters High A/V club producing weekly newscasts from new studio". KBNZ-LD. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ Nieto, Olivia (2024-09-24). "SHS launching 'Outlaw Media'". The Nugget. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ Cornelius, Jim (2024-09-03). "New school year, new school". The Nugget. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ "New Sisters recreation center opening at old elementary school". Central Oregon Daily. 2025-03-14. Retrieved 2025-04-09.
Further reading
[edit]- Betros, Rosemary; Rola, Katherine E. (Fall 2022). "A New Future for the Sisters Elementary School Site". University of Oregon.
- Birky, Ginny. "Spotlight on Success: Sisters High School" (PDF). Oregon Department of Education. - Birky, a George Fox University PhD student, wrote it as a project with the ODE
External links
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