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In Kalispell Public Schools, 136 K-8 students were identified as homeless under the federal McKinney — Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 2022-23, according to the latest data collected by the state.
Glacier High School is an American public secondary school located in Kalispell, Montana, United States. Along with Flathead High School, it is one of two high schools in Kalispell School District #5. [3]
Flathead High School is an American public secondary school located in Kalispell, Montana. It is one of two high schools in District #5 of the Kalispell Public Schools. Originally Flathead County High School is offers an International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Its teams have won various state championships.
The Pend d'Oreille or Pend d'Oreilles (/ ˌ p ɒ n d ə ˈ r eɪ / PON-də-RAY), also known as the Kalispel (/ ˈ k æ l ə s p ɛ l /), [3] are Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau. Today many of them live in Montana and eastern Washington of the United States. The Kalispel peoples referred to their primary tribal range as Kaniksu.
In the 18th century, the Niitsitapi people pushed them from the Great Plains to Pend d'Oreille River and Lake Pend Oreille. [3] The town of Kalispell, Montana is named after the tribe. In 1809, David Thompson opened a trading post for the North West Company of Montréal in their territory. [3] A Roman Catholic mission was founded in the 1840s. [4]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 5,256 square miles (13,610 km 2), of which 5,088 square miles (13,180 km 2) is land and 169 square miles (440 km 2) (3.2%) is water. [4] It is the third-largest county in Montana by land area and second-largest by total area.
The college added an AAS degree in Brewing Science and Brewery Operations in 2015, and has built an on-campus brewery for student instruction. [2] The school's sports teams were known as the Mountaineers and Mountainettes or sometimes the Timberettes. [ 1 ]
"Kalispell" is a Salish word meaning "flat land above the lake". [7] The townsite was quickly platted, and lots began selling by the spring of 1891. Kalispell was officially incorporated as a city in 1892, [11] and Conrad built a large mansion there in 1895. [12] Since that time, the city has continued to grow in population, reaching 19,927 in ...