The Howard School District #48-3 serves the communities of Howard (county seat of Miner County), Canova, Fedora, Roswell, Vilas, Epiphany, and Argonne.  The school district is 430 sq. miles and serves most of the school population in Miner County plus small parts of Kingsbury, McCook, and Hanson Counties.  Howard is the only K-12 district in Miner County.  Howard School District serves approximately 399 students.

The school facilities in the district are very good.  The Junior-Senior High School was completed in 1969 and is in excellent condition.  It is a spacious, functional, and well designed facility.  An addition to the Howard Elementary School (K-6) was completed in 1993.  This building was built in three phases, 1952, 1969, and 1993.  The Howard Armory (1955) is also a school facility.

The majority of early settlers came to this part of South Dakota from Germany and Norway, so there are many German Catholic and German, as well as Norwegian Lutheran families.  The people of the school community are positive about the school, supportive, and attend school activities in good numbers.