Sugar-Salem High School | |
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1 Digger Drive Sugar City, Idaho U.S. |
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Type | Public |
School district | Sugar-Salem J.S.D (#322) |
Principal | Jared Jenks |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 425 (2009–10) |
Color(s) | Royal blue & white |
Athletics | IHSAA Class 3A |
Athletics conference | Mountain Rivers |
Mascot | Digger |
Rival | South Fremont |
Yearbook | Blue & White |
Feeder schools | Sugar-Salem Junior High |
Information | (208) 356-0274 |
Elevation | 4,890 ft (1,490 m) AMSL |
Website | Sugar-Salem H.S. |
Sugar-Salem High School is a four-year public secondary school in Sugar City, Idaho, the only traditional high school of the Sugar-Salem Joint School District #322 in Madison County. The school colors are royal blue and white and the mascot is a digger, a reference to sugar beet cultivation.
The school district takes in students from the surrounding area, from the community referred to locally as Plano and Salem on the west to beyond the town of Newdale on the east. On the north it borders Fremont County, following the Henry's Fork of the Snake River, and on the south it borders with Madison School District and the city of Rexburg.
Sugar-Salem High School was built in 1989. The high school was previously housed in what is now the junior high.
Sugar-Salem High School has received academic awards including a bronze medal on U.S. News & World Report’s list of America’s Best High Schools in 2008 and was listed as a top school in Redbook Magazine in 1994. Sugar Salem High School has a graduation rate of 97 percent. In 2013, it became a National Blue Ribbon School.
Sugar-Salem competes in athletics in IHSAA Class 3A and is a member of the Mountain Rivers Conference. It has received many sportsmanship awards in boys’ and girls’ basketball, volleyball, cross country, wrestling, track & field, and soccer.
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Coordinates: 43°52′19″N 111°44′21″W / 43.87194°N 111.73917°W