Circle of Nations / Jorge Enrique Sanchez MBR

Circle of Nations is a residential school serving American Indian youth in grades 4 through 8. In 2022-2023 there were 171 students who attended the school. The purpose of the Circle of Nations residential educational program is to prepare students to learn, and to foster a healthy development of the whole child in a Native American cultural environment. The school's mission and purposes are reflected in the vision statement: "Circle of Nations School is to build academic achievement and foster healthy development of the whole child in an intertribal environment."Circle of Nations is an inter-tribal off-reservation boarding school, chartered under the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and funded by the Bureau of Indian Education. The BIE has responsibility for 184 elementary and secondary schools and dormitories as well as 24 colleges, and the Bureau-operated Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute. Post-secondary institutions, schools and dormitories are located on 63 reservations in 23 states across the United States serving approximately 60,000 students representing 238 different tribes.