| Mitchell High School | |
| Streetaddress: | 920 North Capital Street |
| City: | Mitchell |
| State: | South Dakota |
| Zipcode: | 57301 |
| Country: | United States |
| Coordinates: | 43.7186°N -98.0165°W |
| District: | Mitchell School District 17-2 |
| Principal: | Joe Childs |
| Teaching Staff: | 48.01 (FTE) |
| Grades: | 9–12 |
| Enrollment: | 858 (2022-23)[1] |
| Grade9: | 250 |
| Grade10: | 174 |
| Grade11: | 172 |
| Grade12: | 205 |
| Ratio: | 16.68 |
| Colors: | Black and Gold |
| Fightsong: | On For Mitchell |
| Athletics Conference: | Eastern South Dakota Conference |
| Mascot: | Cornelius the Kernel |
| Nickname: | Kernels |
| Rival: | Huron Tigers |
| Feeders: | Mitchell Middle School |
| Website: | Mitchell High School |
Mitchell High School is a public high school located in Mitchell, South Dakota. It serves students in grades 9 through 12, and is the only high school in the Mitchell School District.
High school classes were held in the Central School until 1909, when a new Mitchell High School was built.[2]
By the 2010s, there was an alternative school, Second Chance HS, for at-risk students that provided a small, more customized learning environment.
The location and nature of Mitchell High School is rural.[3] The student body of Mitchell High School is 85 percent white, five percent Native American, five percent Hispanic, one percent African-American, one percent Asian, and three percent of students identify as a part of two or more races.[4]
The school athletic teams are the Mitchell Kernels; the moniker was adopted in the 1930s.[5] The school mascot is called Cornelius.[3] Both are references to the Mitchell Corn Palace.[3]
Kernel athletic teams compete in the Eastern South Dakota Conference.[6]
| Boys basketball[7] | 1932, 1935, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1964, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2024 |
| Football[8] | 2016 |
| Girls tennis[9] | 2019 |
In February 2017, MHS opened the largest high school auditorium in the state of South Dakota.[10]
MHS has a competitive show choir, "Friend de Coup".[11] FDC won a national-level competition in 2000 and won the state competition sanctioned by the South Dakota High School Activities Association all three years the contest was held (2016–18).[12] [13] The school also hosts an annual competition.[14]
The school student newspaper, The Kernel, was cut due to budgetary pressures in 2017, but remained in publication as a club activity in association with the local regular newspaper The Daily Republic.[15]