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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
High school meets
enrollment goal
By Leslie Mitts
Spilyay Tymoo
The Willow Creek Com
munity High School met its
target goal for enrollment: to
have cultural representation
with near equal numbers of
Native American, Caucasian
and Hispanic students.
Principal Julie Lafayette
said, “I am very satisfied with
the number of applications
and of those that applied.”
She added, “We really hit
our target as far as having
cultural representation, hav
ing a variety of academic lev
els and interests, so w e’re
pretty excited.”
E n ro llm en t for the
school’s 2007-08 academic
year closed on M arch 1.
While the school will still be
accepting applications, those
applicants will be part of a
waiting list, and will be con
sidered for the second year of
enrollment.
The school aims to enroll
students who w ill benefit
from individualized learning
and project-based learning.
In the near future the
school will conduct a lottery
drawing to determine which
60 students will be enrolling
in the school next year.
As for the lottery draw,
Lafayette said, “We’re putting
together a selection team and
hope to have it done within
a week—that’s the goal, but
it may take longer.”
The next step, Lafayette
said, is readying the school
for the students next school
year.
“We’re just really working
hard on the curriculum to get
that ready and set up,” she
said.
“We’ll be hiring teachers
in the near future.”
Of the 83 completed ap
plications 20 are ninth grade
students and 63 are eighth
grade students.
Also, 29 are Hispanic, 24
Native American, 29 Cauca
sian and 1 black.
Forty-one applications
were received from male stu
dents, while 42 were received
from female students.
Study program at Fairgrounds
Students who w ish to
have some help with their
homework, or who want a
good place to do school
work away from school, can
study at the Jefferson County
Fairgrounds.
The study sessions are
from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on
Tuesdays. Snacks are pro
vided.
Warm Springs students
should take the no. 2 bus to
the fairgrounds. An activity
bus is provided for the ride
back to Warm Springs.
Call Butch David at the
m iddle schoo l, or Lana
Leonard at the high school
for more information.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Young people of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sang songs in the traditional languages of the tribes at the
gathering at Celilo this past weekend.
Weight sessions
offered to middle
school students
Attention students o f the
Jefferso n C ounty M iddle
School:
W eightlifting sessions are
available from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays at Madras High School.
An activity bus is provided to
Warm Springs for students who
are interested.
Contact Butch David at the
middle school for more infor
mation, 475-7253.
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