Deninu School
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| Deninu School | |
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General Delivery , , Canada | |
| Coordinates | 61°10′14″N 113°40′00″W / 61.17056°N 113.66667°W |
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| Funding type | Public |
| School board | Fort Resolution DEA, South Slave DEC |
| Superintendent | Souhail Soujah[1] |
| Area trustee | Lisa Miersch (Fort Resolution DEA)[2] |
| Principal | Simone De Gannes Lange[3] |
| Staff | 20 |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Enrollment | 105 (2025) |
| Language | English, Chipewyan |
| Website | sites |
Deninu School is a K-12 public school located in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada. The school currently represents the only public education option for youth in the hamlet and serves a student population of approximately 105 students. The school is overseen by the Fort Resolution District Education Authority and administered by the South Slave Divisional Education Council (SSDEC).[3]
The school makes extensive use of Dene Kede, a curriculum developed in the Northwest Territories designed specifically for use in small Dene communities such as Fort Resolution. The goal of the curriculum is to develop "capable Dene" and has a strong focus on developing student relationships with the spiritual world, the land, other people, and themselves. Compared with their peers elsewhere in Canada, students in Fort Resolution spend more significant amounts of educational time on the land and learning about their cultural heritage.[4]