Harrisburg School District is one of the largest school districts in South Dakota, located 7 miles from Sioux Falls in Lincoln County, serving 4,547 students as of September 2019[update].

This marked the second in school shooting in South Dakota, and the first with malicious intent involved.

[5] On December 13, 2019, an unidentified student threatened Harrisburg North, one of the districts 2 middle schools.

In an Email to KSFY (now Dakota News Now), the school district said that "the threat was not viable."

[6] The Harrisburg Girls’ Soccer team won the 2022 South Dakota AA state championship on October 15, 2022.