- Highland Park High School (Minnesota)
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- For schools of the same name, see Highland Park High School.
Highland Park Senior High School 
Motto Challenge, Envision, Achieve Type Public Principal Winston Tucker Students 1450[1] Grades 9–12 Location Saint Paul, Minnesota,, USA District Saint Paul Public Schools Campus Urban Colors Red and White Mascot Scots Yearbook Tartan Newspaper The Highland Park Free Press Phone number (651) 293-8940 National ranking 687 Website http://www.highlandsr.spps.org/ Coordinates: 44°54′39″N 93°10′1″W / 44.91083°N 93.16694°W
Highland Park Senior High School is a public secondary school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States serving grades 9 through 12. It is located in the Highland Park neighborhood.
The school offers the International Baccalaureate program.[2] It is a national Blue Ribbon School. Newsweek ranked the school #973 in their "List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America."[3]
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Academics
Motivated students in all three Communities may take International Baccalaureate (offered since 1994[2]) and Advanced Placement courses. They also offer the College in the Schools program in conjunction with the University of Minnesota.
Languages
Highland Park offers a number of foreign languages, including:
- Spanish, including the secondary component of Saint Paul Public Schools' Spanish immersion program.
- French
- Mandarin Chinese
- Formerly American Sign Language; ASL was offered in the connecting Highland Park Junior High School, however the language does not continue into the high school, and the immersion program for deaf students was removed in 2008.
Athletics
Highland Park has enjoyed moderate success in its athletic program. The boys basketball team qualified for the state championship several times in the 1970s before winning the class AAAA state championship in 1999. The girls basketball team made two state tournament runs in 1985 and 1986, finishing second in the 1986 class AA state championship.
As of 2007, Highland Park has also won two conference titles for football, six for girls basketball, eight in boys basketball, four for wrestling, including three in a row from 2005 to 2007, five for baseball and one for boys hockey in 1976 led by John Alexander who led the City Conference in scoring that year.[citation needed] Most recently Highland Parks baseball team won the Saint Paul City Conference 2008 for the first time in over 29 years with a record of 10-2 in the conference. Led by Travis Zenda, Lucas Goodman, David Steele, and Teddy Van Ranst. After 29 years of not winning a conference championship Highland Park not only wins one in 2008 but repeated their winning ways and won the conference in 2009 as well. This year led by junior Ty Pharaoh and returning seniors Teddy Van Ranst and Lucas Goodman.[5] The school also boasted a tremendous soccer team that won the conference 4 straight years 2003-2007 and a chess team that won its conference title 2 times in 2003 and 2004. Highland recently had its varsity hockey team back. Led by Big Andy and Kyle Hallock and bender John Anderson.
The Highland Park track and field team won city conference on the 2005 season, with the shot-put and discus group earning the majority of points that would allow Highland Park to take the championship.
In other competitions The Highland Park Forensics teams are arguably some of the best in the state. The teams have won at least one championship in each of years from 2008-2010 (Policy Debate, Extemp. Reading, Policy Debate). The Scots also have sent the most of any of the Saint Paul Public Schools to State in speech since 2008.Math team for the school is excellent, being in the top 20 in state for several years.
Musical programs at the school have gotten no lower than excellent ratings since 2007, and have sent over 1/4 of the city wide honors band and orchestra since 2008 as well.
Demographics
According to the most recent school profile,[1] the school's current enrollment is 1467. 36% of students are Caucasian American, 28% are African American, 21% are Asian American, 14% are Hispanic American, and 1% are American Indian.[6] In addition, 22% are English language learners, 15% are in Special Education programs, and 56% are eligible for the free and reduced lunch program. The student to teacher ratio is 21.6.[7][8]
Campus
Highland is connected to Highland Park Junior High School, a 1958 Miesian building. Mattocks Schoolhouse is a historic landmark now used as part of Highland Park's facilities. The one room limestone building, originally called Webster School Number 9, was built in 1871. The building became part of the Saint Paul Public Schools system in 1887 and was renamed at that time. For thirty years the building served as an American Legion post before being moved to its current location in 1964 after residing one mile north of the high school. The classroom has most recently been used for Spanish classes.[9][10] Mattocks Schoolhouse is "essentially a Greek Revival building with some Italianate details."[11][12]
Notable alumni
- Richard Cohen, Minnesota state senator (DFL) (1967)[13]
- Janie Mayeron, U.S. Magistrate Judge (1969)[13]
- Jack Morris, former Major League Baseball pitcher (1973)[13]
- Duane G. Carey, former U.S. astronaut (1975)[14]
- Eyedea, born Micheal Larsen, rapper (1999)[15]
- Deborah Hertz, Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California, San Diego
References
- ^ a b "Highland Park Senior High School". Saint Paul Public School System. http://choicecatalog.spps.org/highland_park_sr.html. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- ^ a b "Highland Park Senior High School". International Baccalaureate Organization. http://www.ibo.org/school/000745/.
- ^ "The Top of the Class". The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools. MSNBC. 2007. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532678/site/newsweek/. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
- ^ The school has received grants from the Bush Foundation and Gates Foundation to develop the Small Learning Communities model.
- ^ "Saint Paul City Conference". Saint Paul Public Schools. 2009-03-15. http://www.stpaulathletics.org/athindex.html. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
- ^ All racial breakdowns are how students "identify themselves."
- ^ "School Matters Report Card". 2007-03-31. http://www.schoolmatters.com.
- ^ "HIGHLAND PARK SENIOR HIGH (220)". Minnesota Department of Education. http://education.state.mn.us/ReportCard2005/schoolDistrictInfo.do?SCHOOL_NUM=220&DISTRICT_NUM=0625&DISTRICT_TYPE=01. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ "Mattocks Schoolhouse". Saint Paul Public School System. http://www.highlandsr.spps.org/Mattock_Schoolhouse.html. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
- ^ Millett, Larry (2007). AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minnesota Historical Society Press. pp. 527–530. ISBN 0-87351-540-4.
- ^ Gebhard, David; Martinson, Tom (1977). A Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota. Minneapolis: Published by the University of Minnesota Press for the University Gallery of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Society of Architects. pp. 113. ISBN 0-8166-0773-7.
- ^ Sigvertson, Jene T.. From the Past to the Present: An Inventory of Saint Paul Public School Facilities.. Saint Paul Public Schools. http://www.spps.org/sites/dd77441e-b117-423c-90a1-6fcbdcc68b6f/uploads/SPPSF.pdf.
- ^ a b c "Hall of Fame". http://www.highlandsr.spps.org/Hall_of_Fame2.html.
- ^ "Famous Alumni". Saint Paul Public Schools. http://www.spps.org/Famous_Alumni.html. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- ^ Scholtes, Peter S. (2001-09-12). "What's the Big Eyedea?". City Pages. http://citypages.com/databank/22/1084/article9816.asp. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
External links
Categories:- High schools in Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Blue Ribbon schools in Minnesota
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