Sugar-Salem High School Explained

Sugar-Salem High School
Address:	1 Digger Drive
City:	Sugar City
State:	Idaho
Country:	United States
Coordinates:	43.8719°N -111.7392°W
District:	Sugar-Salem School District (#322)
Principal:	Jared Jenks^[1]
Enrollment:	523 (2018–19)
Teaching Staff:	28.50 (2018–19)
Ratio:	18.35:1 (2018–19)
Type:	Public high school
Grades:	9–12
Feeders:	Sugar-Salem Junior High
Athletics:	IHSAA Class 3A
Conference:	Mountain Rivers
Mascot:	Digger
Colors:	Royal blue & white
Rival:	South Fremont
Yearbook:	Blue & White

Sugar-Salem High School is a four-year public secondary school in Sugar City, Idaho, the only traditional high school of the Sugar-Salem Joint School District #322 in Madison County. The school colors are royal blue and white and the mascot is a digger, a reference to sugar beet cultivation.

The school district takes in students from the surrounding area, from the local non-census designated communities of Salem (mostly inside Madison County, but partially straddling Fremont County) and Plano on the west to beyond the town of Newdale on the east. On the north, it borders Fremont County, following the Snake River tributary known as Henrys Fork. On the south, it borders Madison School District and the city of Rexburg.

History

Sugar-Salem High School was built in 1989. The high school was previously housed in what is now Sugar-Salem Junior High School.

Academic Awards

Sugar-Salem High School has received academic awards including a bronze medal on the U.S. News & World Report List of America’s Best High Schools in 2008 and was listed as a top school in Redbook Magazine in 1994. Sugar Salem High School has a graduation rate of 97 percent. In 2013, it became a National Blue Ribbon School.

Athletics

Sugar-Salem competes in athletics in IHSAA Class 3A and is a member of the Mountain Rivers Conference. It has received many sportsmanship awards in boys’ and girls’ basketball, volleyball, cross country, wrestling, track & field, and soccer.

State titles

Boys

• Football (4): fall 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022^[2]
• Cross Country (1): fall (3A) 2009 ^[3] (introduced in 1964)
• Soccer (2):fall 2021,^[4] 2022 ^[5] (introduced in 2000)
• Basketball (8): (AA, now 3A) 1962; (A-3, now 2A) 1973; (A-2, now 3A) 1993, 1994, (3A) 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 ^[6]
• Wrestling (10): (A-3, now 2A) 1984, 1986, 1991; (A-2, now 3A) 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000; (3A) 2002, 2003, 2017 ^[7] (introduced in 1958)
• Track (3): (3A)2015^[8]

Girls

• Cross Country (2): fall (3A) 2012, 2013^[3] (introduced in 1974)
• Soccer (0): fall ^[5] (introduced in 2000)
• Volleyball (5): fall (A-3, now 2A) 1990; (3A) 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 ^{[9] [10]} (introduced in 1976)
• Basketball (8^[11]): (A-3, now 2A) 1991; (3A) 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 ^[12] (introduced in 1976)
• Track (9): (A-3, now 2A) 1983, 1985, 1986; (3A) 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014^[13] (introduced in 1971)

Notable alumni

• Harold G. Hillam - Emeritus General Authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, former member of the Presidency of the Seventy
• Mack Shirley, Idaho State Representative
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer-prize winning author of A Midwife's Tale

See also

• List of high schools in Idaho

External links

• • Sugar-Salem School District

Notes and References

1. Web site: Idaho High School Activities Association. 2011-01-30.
2. http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/Football.pdf idhsaa.org
3. http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/CrossCountry.pdf idhsaa.org
4. https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/sports/back-to-back-state-titles-for-sugar-salem/article_beeeb6ce-53df-11ed-8f82-ebfc4738f931.html Back to back state titles for Sugar-Salem
5. Web site: Soccer & Volleyball champions - through 2011 . idhsaa.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20120415082833/http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/SoccerVolleyball.pdf . 2012-04-15 .
6. http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/BoysBasketball.pdf idhsaa.org
7. http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/Wrestling.pdf idhsaa.org
8. http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/BoysTrack.pdf idhsaa.org
9. Web site: Soccer & Volleyball champions - through 2011 . idhsaa.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20120415082833/http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/SoccerVolleyball.pdf . 2012-04-15 .
10. Web site: Past state volleyball tournament results. IHSAA. November 11, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121018003424/http://www.idhsaa.org/sports/volleyball/volleyball_pastyears.asp. October 18, 2012.
11. https://news.scorebooklive.com/idaho/2022/02/20/sugar-salem-wins-8th-idaho-girls-basketball-state-championship Sugar-Salem wins 8th Idaho Girls' Basketball state championship
12. http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/GirlsBasketball.pdf idhsaa.org
13. http://www.idhsaa.org/Records/1011/GirlsTrack.pdf idhsaa.org