Tahlequah Public Schools is a

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Tahlequah, Oklahoma Tahlequah ( ; , ) is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as p ...

. The district includes most of Tahlequah and

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and portions of Briggs, Caney Ridge, Eldon, Etta, Grandview,

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, Park Hill, Shady Grove, Steely Hollow, Tenkiller, and

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. In October 2018, the school district had an enrollment of 3,642. The district runs seven schools, the Sequoyah Pre-School for

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s, the Cherokee Elementary, the Greenwood Elementary and the Heritage Elementary, the (5-8 grades) Tahlequah Middle School, the (9-12 grades) Tahlequah High School, and Central Academy, which is an

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that provides

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Old website
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