ABOUT THE SCHOOL SUCCESS STORY Amidst challenges, school angles for transformation The Shoshone-Bannock Jr./Sr. High School (Sho-Ban) is a small school located on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in southeastern Idaho, serving students in grades 6-12. Sho-Ban has received a School Improvement Grant funded by the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Education to substantially raise the achievement of their students. Fort Hall, a small reservation community, has high levels of poverty, underemployment, high-needs families, and adults with low levels of formal education. Students enrolled at Sho-Ban often face social problems indicative of communities and families in poverty, such as: low attendance rates, low academic achievement, anger management issues, difficulty with

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