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Sugar Salem High School

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Type
  
Public

Grades
  
9–12

Color(s)
  
Royal blue & white

Mascot
  
Sugar-Salem Digger

Principal
  
Jared Jenks

Enrollment
  
425  (2009–10)

Phone
  
+1 208-356-0274

Number of students
  
425 (2009–2010)

School district
  
Sugar-Salem J.S.D (#322)

Address
  
1 Digger Dr, Sugar City, ID 83448, USA

District
  
Sugar-Salem Joint District

Sugar salem high school


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.

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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.

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History

Sugar-Salem High School was built in 1989. The high school was previously housed in what is now the junior high.

Academic Awards

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.

Athletics

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.

State titles

Boys

  • Cross Country (1): fall (3A) 2009 (introduced in 1964)
  • Basketball (5): (AA, now 3A) 1962; (A-3, now 2A) 1973; (A-2, now 3A) 1993, 1994, (3A) 2017
  • Wrestling (10): (A-3, now 2A) 1984, 1986, 1991; (A-2, now 3A) 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000; (3A) 2002, 2003, 2017 (introduced in 1958)
  • Track (3): (3A)2015

    • Girls

  • Cross Country (2): fall (3A) 2012, 2013 (introduced in 1974)
  • Soccer (0): fall (introduced in 2000)
  • Volleyball (5): fall (A-3, now 2A) 1990; (3A) 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 (introduced in 1976)
  • Basketball (5): (A-3, now 2A) 1991; (3A) 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 (introduced in 1976)
  • Track (9): (A-3, now 2A) 1983, 1985, 1986; (3A) 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 (introduced in 1971)

    • Notable alumni

  • Harold G. Hillam - Emeritus General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, former member of the Presidency of the Seventy
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer-prize winning author of A Midwife's Tale

    • References

    Sugar-Salem High School Wikipedia
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