Mitchell High School (South Dakota)

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.^[3]

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]

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]

• George McGovern, graduated 1940, U.S. Senator and 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee^[16]
• Mike Miller, graduated 1998, former professional basketball player,^[17] coach for the Houston High School, Rookie of the Year, and 2x champion
• Ryan Miller, graduated 1994, college basketball coach^[18]