Back to school for Bismarck Public Schools today, and I thought it’d be fun to take a look at statistics of the state’s largest school district.
- Bismarck Public Schools serves more than 10,700 students.
- Bismarck Public Schools employs more than 1,600 people.
- The first graduating class, in 1887, consisted of just 2 students.
- The largest graduating class, in 2003, consisted of 826 students.
- Bismarck Public Schools maintains 15 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 2 high schools, and an alternative school.
- The oldest remaining school building in the district is Bismarck High School, opened in 1935.
- The newest remaining school building in the district is Horizon Middle School, opened in 2001.
- The Bismarck High School Demon Mascot was first used in 1922.
- Wachter was the first school in North Dakota to switch to the Middle School format, when it did so in 1991.
Read more about Bismarck Education here: http://www.bismancafe.com/about/schools.htm
