PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Little Wound School on the Pine Ridge Reservation a $325,000 grant to help the school recover from 12 suicide deaths on the reservation.

The Project School Emergency Response to Violence grant aims to help the Oglala Sioux Tribe deal with the deaths of current and former Little Wound School students and relatives and friends of the students. There have also been more than 100 suicide attempts on the reservation during the 2014-15 school year.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the grant will help the community receive the services it needs to move forward in restoring the learning environment.

Little Wound School is a Bureau of Indian Education funded, tribally-controlled school serving approximately 800 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.