Eagle Butte High School is a high school in Dunmore, Alberta

Dunmore, Alberta

Dunmore is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County, located southeast of Medicine Hat's city limits on Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. It is also recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada....

 established in 1996. It is a school with only one hallway, a single floor, and is built into a hill for better heating efficiency. It is part of the Prairie Rose Regional School Division No. 8.

History

Eagle Butte High School was built in the spring of 1996. It was named after a former one-room schoolhouse in the Cypress Hills called "Eagle Butte School".

In the fall of 1996, 220 students – mostly grade 10 – registered at Eagle Butte. Coming from Redcliff, Irvine, Schuler, Seven Persons, Ralston and surrounding areas, Eagle Butte became a mix of personalities and talents that would become one of the major strengths of the school.

Eagle Butte has been working hard at developing both roots and wings since its early beginning. The school now offers a full range of high school programs, from welding

Welding

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 and woodworking

Woodworking

Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood.-History:Along with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood...

 to cosmetology

Cosmetology

Cosmetology is the study and application of beauty treatment. Branches of specialty including hairstyling, skin care, cosmetics, manicures/pedicures, and electrology....

, foods and computers (both Macintosh

Macintosh

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 and IBM

IBM PC compatible

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). Eagle Butte is indeed the fulfillment of a Prairie Rose Dream. Eagle Butte students have done their best to make EBHS a place where our "roots" nourish learning and our "wings" prepare us for life.

Student body

Generally the students of Eagle Butte come from the feeder schools which are part of the Prairie Rose Regional School Division No. 8. Students come from communities or farms and ranches in or around Dunmore

Dunmore, Alberta

Dunmore is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County, located southeast of Medicine Hat's city limits on Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. It is also recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada....

, Irvine

Irvine, Alberta

Irvine is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. It is located approximately east of Medicine Hat on Highway 1 and has an elevation of .The hamlet is located in census division No. 1 and in the federal riding of Medicine Hat....

, Walsh

Walsh, Alberta

Walsh is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada, within Cypress County.It is located along the Trans-Canada Highway, immediately west of the Saskatchewan border, and has an elevation of .The hamlet is located in census division No...

, Elkwater

Elkwater, Alberta

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, Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat, Alberta

Medicine Hat, known to locals as "The Hat", is a city of 61,097 people located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is enclaved within Cypress County along with the nearby Town of Redcliff, although neither is part of the county....

, Suffield

Suffield, Alberta

Suffield is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. It is located on the Trans-Canada Highway approximately northwest of Medicine Hat.- History :...

, Seven Persons, and Redcliff

Redcliff, Alberta

Redcliff is a town in southern Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. Bordering the City of Medicine Hat to the south and east, the town is bisected by Highway 1 and is located on the north bank of the South Saskatchewan River....

.

Athletics

Eagle Butte has programs in the following sports: Badminton

Badminton

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, Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, Cross Country Running

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, Curling

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

, Track and Field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, Rugby

Rugby football

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, and a combined football

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

team with McCoy High School in Medicine Hat.

External links

• Eagle Butte High School (Official website)
• Prairie Rose Regional School Division No. 8