Sequoyah High School (Cherokee County, Oklahoma)

Sequoyah High School
Address
Map
Muskogee Ave

,
74464

United States
Coordinates35°50′56″N 95°00′07″W / 35.848776°N 95.001982°W / 35.848776; -95.001982
Information
Funding typeBIE grant
Established1871
SuperintendentTerry Heustis
PrincipalJustin Brown [1]
Staff25.71 (FTE)[2]
Grades7-12
GenderCoeducational
Enrollment375 (2022-23)[2]
Student to teacher ratio14.59[2]
Color(s)     
Athletics conferenceOSSAA 3A
SportsBaseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country fast pitch softball, football, golf, powerlifting, slow-pitch softball, track, volleyball, wrestling
MascotIndian [3]
Websitesequoyahschools.org

Sequoyah High School (also known as Sequoyah-Tahlequah) is a Native American boarding school serving students in grades 7 through 12,[4] who are members of a federally recognized Native American tribe. The school is located in Park Hill, Oklahoma, with a Tahlequah post office address,[5][6] and is a Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) grant school operated by the Cherokee Nation.

Sequoyah is one of two boarding high schools for Native Americans in Oklahoma.[7] It is a part of Sequoyah Schools (Cherokee: ᏏᏉᏯ ᏗᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ, romanized: Siquoya Dideloquasdi[8]).

  1. ^ Faculty and Staff. Sequoyah High School. (retrieved 19 January 2012)
  2. ^ a b c "SEQUOYAH HS". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  3. ^ Tepper, Greg (2006-07-23). "Mascot fits Tahlequah-Sequoyah". Tulsa World. Retrieved 2015-01-24.
  4. ^ "Sequoyah High School - History". www.sequoyahschools.org. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26.
  5. ^ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Park Hill CDP, OK" (PDF). U.S. Census. Retrieved 2020-10-12. - The land with the school is on page 3.
    2000 Map: "CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: PARK HILL CDP" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2020-10-12. - page 3
  6. ^ "Home". Sequoyah High School. Retrieved 2020-10-12. 17091 S. Muskogee Ave.Tahlequah, OK 74465 - Compare the address to the CDP maps. Please note the school is not (as of 2020) in the Tahlequah city limits. The city of Houston stated in 1996 that the US Postal Service does not match city names of postal addresses to actual municipal boundaries.
  7. ^ Raymond, Jeff (2007-08-18). "Indian school offers heritage-heavy curriculum". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  8. ^ Etheridge, Ron. "Dormitory Application" (PDF). www.sequoyahschools.org. Sequoyah Schools. Retrieved 13 October 2020.