Knox County School Districts
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BLOOMFIELD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
Bloomfield Community Schools will provide educational opportunities in academics and life skills to enable students to develop into responsible citizens
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CREIGHTON COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The mission of Creighton Community Schools through the cooperative effort of home and community is to challenge and prepare all students for their future in a changing society.
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CROFTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
Crofton Community School is a K-12 school system fully accredited by the Nebraska Department of Education. The school participates in the Nebraska School Activities Association at a C1 classification. The school system covers approximately 175 square miles, and supports a student enrollment of 484 students in grades K-12, which designates Crofton Community School as the largest school system in Knox County, Nebraska. Crofton Community School is proud of it's excellent school facilities, having built a new Jr./Sr. high school building and extensively renovating the elementary school building in 1992. Crofton promotes an aggressive academic and extra curricular program, and has become known throughout the state for academic excellence in virtually all areas of the curriculum, depicted by numerous multi-state academic victories in college-sponsored academic contests. Crofton looks to the future with excitement and anticipation. The school system has established high goals and expectations utilizing the latest in computer technology and learning. Having one of the fastest growing school systems in the Northeast Nebraska area, the district has committed itself to employing the finest instructors to lead the school, it's students, and the entire community with leadership quality into the 21st century.
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NIOBRARA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Niobrara Public Schools is an accredited Nebraska Class III school system. It currently enrolls approximately 160 students in grades K-12. The district staffs two full-time administrators, 20 certified employees, and 14 classified staff members providing support service.
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SANTEE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
The Santee Normal Training School was founded by Alfred L. Riggs, an American Board member, in an attempt to train native teachers. As a boarding school, established in the winter of 1870-1871, it had an enrollment of 111 and an average attendance of 69. From 1870-1923, the school had 2,398 pupils on the roll. After 67 years, the school closed in 1937.The Santee Normal Training School reached its high point in the 1890's, when it became in reality what its founder had envisioned it as being: a center of education for all the Sioux. Financial support from the government and religious societies were a mixed blessing. Besides its financial support the government tried to control what was taught at the school. For example, Riggs was constantly defending usage of the Dakota language while teaching. In 1886-7, he was ordered by the government to teach only in the English language. In Riggs' official report he pointed out that in the normal department of the school the use of Dakota was "indispensable to the best instruction." "Things, not names," he said, "are what the true teacher must grasp; then names come afterwards." He went on to further point out that the Santee Normal Training School represents "the high water mark of Indian advance more than any other school in the country." He reviewed its history and described its impressive physical plant, concluding: "And now this is to be dismembered and eviscerated by the order of the government.In 1893, the strain of trying to accommodate the school and the government proved too great. The government contract was terminated and the American Missionary Association, a Congregational body, operated the school until the fourth decade of the twentieth century.Today, the Santee Community School has an enrollment of 145 students, with a ninety-eight percent Native American population. There is one administrator, twenty-three certified teachers, and sixteen classified staff members. The curriculum offers a variety of classes ranging from the basic math, English, and Social Studies classes to Industrial Technology and computer classes. Every other year a class in Santee History is offered to the junior and senior classes. All of the students are involved with various other cultural activities throughout the school year with the school's Culture Club.
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WAUSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
We believe that all the youth of this community should be given an equal opportunity for a general education that will help them to become good citizens for democratic living. We believe our school should provide an educational environment that will assist all students to fulfill their needs, interests, and abilities so that they may develop to their maximum capabilities. We believe that it is as important to learn to live a full and complete life as it is to learn to be self-sufficient. Therefore, the total development of each individual to his/her highest potential is the primary concern of the Wausa School System.