[2] It was formerly known as the Shannon County School District 65-1 (SCSD).
[5] In 2015, according to the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the district had one school it deemed to be in need of replacing but that the other three were recently built.
The editorial board wrote, "the gap in quality between the public school facilities and the four distressed BIE schools is a touchy subject on the reservation.
[5] In 2018 the district created a school safety plan with its rural location in mind, as police response would not be at the level it would be in a suburban or urban area.
Brandon Ecoffey of Lakota Times described the plan as "extremely aggressive, and somewhat controversial".