Sugar-Salem High School
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Sugar-Salem High School is a public high school
located in Sugar City, Idaho
. and is part of the Sugar-Salem School District. The district takes in students from the surrounding area, from the community referred to locally as Plano, Idaho on the west to beyond the town of Newdale, Idaho
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, Idaho
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High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Sugar City, Idaho
Sugar City, Idaho
Sugar City is a city in Madison County, Idaho, United States. The population was 1,242 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Rexburg, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
. and is part of the Sugar-Salem School District. The district takes in students from the surrounding area, from the community referred to locally as Plano, Idaho on the west to beyond the town of Newdale, Idaho
Newdale, Idaho
Newdale is a city in Fremont County, Idaho, United States. The population was 358 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Rexburg, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Newdale is located at , one mile below the Teton Dam....
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, Idaho
Rexburg, Idaho
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 17,257 people, 4,274 households, and 2,393 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,534.4 people per square mile . There were 4,533 housing units at an average density of 928.4 per square mile...
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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 and 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.
Athletics
- Sugar-Salem High School is considered a 3A school and has received many sportsmanship awards in boys’ and girls’ basketball, volleyball, cross country and soccer.
Notable natives
- Harold G. HillamHarold G. HillamHarold Gordon Hillam has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1990. Hillam was the fifteenth general president of the LDS Church's Sunday School organization from 1995 to 2000 and was the president of the Boise Idaho Temple from 2005 to 2008.Hillam was...
- Emeritus General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, former member of the Presidency of the Seventy - Laurel Thatcher UlrichLaurel Thatcher UlrichLaurel Thatcher Ulrich , is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University...
, Pulitzer-prize winning author of A Midwife's Tale