Little Wound School ( Lakota: Taopi Cikala Owayawa) is a tribal K-12 school in Kyle, South Dakota. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [1] It is located in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. [2] It is named after Little Wound. [3]
In 2001 the school started a cable television station. [4]
In 2015 the school had 900 students. That year the Minneapolis Star Tribune stated that it was one of four BIE schools in the Pine Ridge community with a building deemed to be in a "poor condition". The gymnasium was built in 1939. [2] The editorial board added that the school had portable buildings unused due to deterioration and that it "lacks separate restrooms and other facilities needed to maintain student discipline and privacy." [2]
By November 2015 the school community experienced a suicide epidemic involving 12 suicides. In 2015 the United States Department of Education gave the school a $325,000 grant to address this. [5]
The elementary division has a boxing club. The school pays for the program, making it one of the few such programs in the state. [6]
43°25′33″N 102°10′29″W / 43.4257°N 102.1746°W
Little Wound School ( Lakota: Taopi Cikala Owayawa) is a tribal K-12 school in Kyle, South Dakota. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [1] It is located in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. [2] It is named after Little Wound. [3]
In 2001 the school started a cable television station. [4]
In 2015 the school had 900 students. That year the Minneapolis Star Tribune stated that it was one of four BIE schools in the Pine Ridge community with a building deemed to be in a "poor condition". The gymnasium was built in 1939. [2] The editorial board added that the school had portable buildings unused due to deterioration and that it "lacks separate restrooms and other facilities needed to maintain student discipline and privacy." [2]
By November 2015 the school community experienced a suicide epidemic involving 12 suicides. In 2015 the United States Department of Education gave the school a $325,000 grant to address this. [5]
The elementary division has a boxing club. The school pays for the program, making it one of the few such programs in the state. [6]
43°25′33″N 102°10′29″W / 43.4257°N 102.1746°W