Custer County District High School

Custer County District High School
Custer County District High School
Address
	20 South Center Ave; Miles City, (Custer County), Montana 59301; United States
Coordinates	46°24′27″N 105°50′24″W
Information
Type	Public, Coeducational high school
Motto	Go Big Blue!
Established	1893
School district	Custer County School District
Principal	Beez Lucerro
Faculty	33.80 (FTE)[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	529 (2017–18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	15.65[1]
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Blue and Gold
Team name	Cowboys
Rival	Glendive Red Devils
Accreditation	NAAS (Northwest Association of Accredited Schools)
Newspaper	Signal Butte
Yearbook	Branding Iron
Activities Director	Mike Ryan
Website	Website

Custer County District High School is part of Custer County School District located in Miles City, Montana.

History

The "Miles City High School" graduated its first student (grade 11) in 1893. In 1903, the school added the twelfth grade and changed its name to "Custer County High School", which had its first graduates in 1904 (due to the extra year of attendance).[2] The first high school was at the location of the current Washington Middle School, but then was a multi-storied building located in the northeastern part of the original town, in what is now the Sacred Heart Catholic school property, next to the Ursuline Convent. In 1922, a new building was constructed at the current location on South Center Avenue. Additions were made in the early '60s. The new buildings contained additional classrooms and a gymnasium, and were connected to the older building with an enclosed ramp.

The name was changed to "Custer County District High School" as a result of combining the school boards for the elementary and the high school in the late 1960s. Shortly after the school district changed from a 2yr / 4yr Jr/Sr secondary education system, to a 3yr /3 yr arrangement, which shared the high school building in a "split shift system", one group using the building in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.[3] This only lasted a couple of years in the early 1970s.

Notable alumni

Maurice Hilleman, microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines, saving millions of lives; class of 1938
Elmer Holt, governor of Montana (1935–37), class of 1899[2]
James Ulio, Adjutant General of the U.S. Army (1942–46), class of 1899[2]
George Winston, pianist
Caleb Frare, baseball player, Chicago White Sox

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References

"Custer Co District High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
Clarke, W.B., "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2013-05-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Dusting Off the Old Ones, 1961
Zook, Bill (Miles City educator), MilesCity.com, 2012

External links

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[NCES-1] "Custer Co District High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 27, 2019.

[DustingOff-2] Clarke, W.B., "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2013-05-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Dusting Off the Old Ones, 1961

[3] Zook, Bill (Miles City educator), MilesCity.com, 2012