Ahfachkee School

Ahfachkee

• Ahfachkee School, is a 30,000 sq ft state of the art middle and high school, tribally controlled K–12 school in unincorporated Hendry County, Florida, on the Big Cypress Reservation, with a Clewiston postal address. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education.
• Community members founded Ahfachkee School before the 1940’s as Big Cypress Day School. In the 1940’s the name of the school was changed to Ahfachkee Day School representing an on-going goal for the students who attend there. Ahfachkee means ‘happy’ in the Eláponke language. In the early 1990’s, upon the direction of the Seminole Tribal Council, Ahfachkee School gained Cognia Accreditation making it one of the few BIA or Hendry County schools, which has achieved the recognition.
• LOCATION: 30290 Josie Billie Highway PMB 1005 Clewiston, FL 33440