HIGH SCHOOL :: Red Cloud Indian School

RED CLOUD HIGH SCHOOL WELCOME

Welcome to the Red Cloud High School website. We are proud of our school, the accomplishments and our tradition of being a Lakota, Catholic and Jesuit school that serves the youth of the Pine Ridge Reservation. We encourage you to visit the website often as one-way to keep abreast of all the good things that are happening at Red Cloud High School.

The Mission of Red Cloud High School
Red Cloud High School seeks to give students the foundation they need to not only pursue post-secondary education, but also become successful members of the community. One-hundred percent of the graduating class of 2011 had a career plan in place. The majority of the graduates planned to further their formal education by attending programs at vocational schools, community colleges or at 4-year institutions. Some students planned to serve our country by enlistingin a branch of the Armed Forces.

7 Mission Objectives of Red Cloud High School

To learn and pass on Lakota culture and language
To learn and pass on the Catholic faith
To seek 100% student enrollment in post-secondary education
To model and teach personal responsibility
To develop and implement a service program
To maintain an enrollment of 200 students
To develop our Jesuit identity

Student Successes

More graduates from Red Cloud High School are successful in pursuing further education than from any other Indian school in the country. Our graduates have been accepted and are attending colleges from Princeton to Stanford to University of Oklahoma to Arizona State University and many other institutions of higher education.
Red Cloud High School boasts the highest number of Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholarship recipients. Nine graduates from the Class of 2011 recieved the scholarship, bringing the tally to 54 scholarships awarded to Red Cloud High School graduates since the program's inception in 1999.
Seniors have earned full rides to attend Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Marquette University, Creighton University, University of Arizona, South Dakota State University, among others.
Seniors include first-generation high school graduates as well as first-generation college students.
100 percent of all high school students volunteer on the reservationthrough the school's service program.
Red Cloud is one of only eleven schools across the United States to collaborate with NASA in its THEMES project.
Red Cloud student-athletes consistently excel in athletics and earn academic honors.