The SDHSAA Outstanding Student Council recognition program was created during the 1990-91 school year as a means of recognizing those student councils that meet the program’s specified criteria. Those schools receiving the Outstanding Student Council designation have met standards of having well-rounded programs that benefit their school, their community, and the state. The Outstanding Student Council program consists of a self-evaluation of the activities and involvement by each participating student council.
2024-25 Outstanding Student Councils
- Aberdeen Central
Belle Fourche
Bennett County
Brookings
Custer
Deuel
Douglas
Edgemont
Estelline - Ethan
Faith
Harding County
Harrisburg
Herreid
Howard
Huron
Lead-Deadwood
Lemmon
Lyman
McCook Central
Mitchell
Mobridge-Pollock
Philip
Pierre T.F. Riggs
Rapid City Stevens
Sioux Falls Jefferson
Sioux Falls Lincoln
Sioux Falls Roosevelt
Sioux Falls Washington
St. Mary’s
Stanley County
Summit
Timber Lake
Watertown
Winner
Yankton
Aberdeen Central – 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Belle Fourche – 1994, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Bennett County – 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Bison – 2023
Bowdle – 2016
Britton-Hecla – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Brookings – 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2025
Canton – 2016, 2017
Conde – 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Corsica – 1991, 1992, 1993
Custer – 1994, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Dakota Valley – 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Deuel – 2024, 2025
Douglas – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Edgemont – 1991, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Edmunds Central – 2019, 2020
Estelline – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Ethan – 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Faith – 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Harding County – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2024, 2025
Harrisburg – 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025
Henry – 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Herreid – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Hoven – 2011, 2012
Howard – 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025
Hurley – 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
Huron – 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Irene-Wakonda – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020
Jones County – 1997, 2000, 2002
Lead-Deadwood – 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Lemmon – 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Lennox – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Lyman – 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
Madison – 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
McCook Central – 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
McIntosh – 2019, 2020, 2021
Milbank – 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
Mitchell – 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Mobridge-Pollock – 2024, 2025
New Underwood – 2020
O’Gorman – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Philip – 1995, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025
Pierre T.F. Riggs – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Plankinton – 2010, 2011
Rapid City Central – 1991, 1998, 1999, 2013, 2015
Rapid City Stevens – 1996, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Rosholt – 1991
Sioux Falls Jefferson – 2023, 2024, 2025
Sioux Falls Lincoln – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Sioux Falls Roosevelt – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Sioux Falls Washington – 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
St. Mary’s – 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
St. Francis Indian – 2018, 2019
Stanley County – 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Sturgis Brown – 1994, 2001, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Sully Buttes – 1993, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Summit – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Timber Lake – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Tri-Valley – 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002
Vermillion – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Wagner – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Wall – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023
Watertown – 1995, 1997, 1998, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Waverly-South Shore – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Wessington Springs – 2013
Winner – 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Yankton – 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2024, 2025