Henry Sibley High School
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Henry Sibley High School was founded in 1954. The current school was built in 1971 to serve students in grades 10-12. Today, it serves students in grades 9-12 and houses the district’s administrative offices. It is currently remodeling the main offices, expanding the cafeteria, and remodeling science spaces, thanks to passage of a facilities and technology referendum in 2004. It serves as the public high school for the communities of Mendota Heights
, Mendota
, Sunfish Lake
, Lilydale, West St. Paul
and parts of Inver Grove Heights
and Eagan
. It is a member of the Classic Suburban Conference.
The school is not only adding an extension to the cafeteria but also a new weight room.
In the second year of Renovations the 3rd and 2nd floors are completely remodeled. There is a new Cafeteria and new offices. The Tech side of the school has also seen some Great Remodel work. The school also has around 100 Macbooks for students in class and all teachers have one as well.
which was part of the original Coat of Arms. In 1999, the Griffin mascot was again transformed into the current Henry Sibley mascot; the Knight
. The Knight is a medieval Warrior, thus keeping history and tradition alive.
years of German. French IV, V and German III, IV are College in the Schools
courses. Four years of Japanese are offered and taught by an exchange teacher
from Kobe College, Kobe, Japan.
The music department offers five choirs, three bands and two orchestras.
A wide variety of business education, family and consumer science, art, and technical
education classes provides breadth to the curriculum and specialized educational opportunities
for students.
RIGOROUS COURSE OPPORTUNITIES
:
Advanced Placement (AP) Courses
· Biology • Economics – Macro • Physics
· Calculus AB • Economics - Micro • Psychology
· Chemistry • English Literature • Statistics
· Computer Programming • Music Theory • U.S. History
University of Minnesota College in the Schools (CIS) Courses
· French IV • German III
· French V • German IV
St. Cloud State University Senior to Sophomore Program (S2S)
· Chemistry of Exercise Physiology
Dakota County Technical College Articulation Agreement Courses (CEC)
· Automated Accounting 1A • Child Psychology
· Automated Accounting 1B • Housing & Interior Design
Post-Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO)
Qualified juniors and seniors may attend eligible Minnesota post-secondary
institutions and can earn both college and high school credit.
Sibley High School has an 18-1 student to teacher ratio.
Athletics
Special Interests
Mendota Heights, Minnesota
At the 2000 census, there were 11,434 people, 4,178 households and 3,237 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,222.2 per square mile . There were 4,252 housing units at an average density of 454.5 per square mile...
, Mendota
Mendota, Minnesota
Mendota is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The name comes from the Dakota word for "where the waters meet." The population was 198 at the 2010 census.-History:...
, Sunfish Lake
Sunfish Lake, Minnesota
Sunfish Lake is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 521 at the 2010 census. First incorporated as a village in 1958, the city's goal has been to maintain a rural atmosphere, with large lot size and as little disturbance of the natural environment as...
, Lilydale, West St. Paul
West St. Paul, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 19,405 people, 8,645 households, and 4,875 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,874.2 people per square mile . There were 8,779 housing units at an average density of 1,752.7 per square mile...
and parts of Inver Grove Heights
Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 29,751 people, 11,257 households, and 7,924 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,038.8 people per square mile . There were 11,457 housing units at an average density of 400.1 per square mile...
and Eagan
Eagan, Minnesota
Eagan is a city south of Saint Paul in Dakota County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies on the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from the confluence with the Mississippi River. Eagan and nearby suburbs form the southern portion of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the fifteenth largest...
. It is a member of the Classic Suburban Conference.
Renovations
The District 197 School Board approved the design proposal for Henry Sibley in March 2006. On April 17, the School Board approved construction bids for work on Henry Sibley. Shaw Lundquist Associates was selected for interior renovation with a base bid of $17,347,000. This is also the reason the textbooks were in such fine condition. The Board also approved full replacement of tile, which was bid as an alternate job to ensure higher priority items were covered first. Building Restoration Corporation was awarded the work for exterior restoration with a base bid of $1,518,410.The school is not only adding an extension to the cafeteria but also a new weight room.
In the second year of Renovations the 3rd and 2nd floors are completely remodeled. There is a new Cafeteria and new offices. The Tech side of the school has also seen some Great Remodel work. The school also has around 100 Macbooks for students in class and all teachers have one as well.
Logo
The “Warriors” is a name rich in history and tradition in its community. Henry Sibley High School has always been named the Warriors and has always had the Warrior as the mascot. However, what the mascot looks like has gone through some pretty major changes. Henry Sibley has been a high school since 1954. The existing building has been open since 1971. Over these many years, the Warrior mascot, much like the community itself, has been transformed due to many factors. The first Warrior mascot was the Indianhead. This mascot endured for many years until 1996. At the same time through the 1950s and 1960s, the symbol of local shopping center Signal Hills was a neon Indian sending signals with a blanket over a fire. Times change and sensitivity shifts, and the mascot was spoken up against. The Henry Sibley student council led the main thrust to change the symbol, because it was led by individuals who realize the damage done by years of imagery degrading to Native Americans. There were mascot committees created at each of the schools. Name changes were being discussed as well as mascot changes. A large contingent of community members went to the school board and asked the board to keep the mascot name as is. The school board agreed that the school has always been the Warriors and it should continue to be. The Warrior mascot was transformed from the Indianhead to the GriffinGriffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle...
which was part of the original Coat of Arms. In 1999, the Griffin mascot was again transformed into the current Henry Sibley mascot; the Knight
Knight
A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior....
. The Knight is a medieval Warrior, thus keeping history and tradition alive.
Academics
The World Language department offers five years of Spanish and French and fouryears of German. French IV, V and German III, IV are College in the Schools
courses. Four years of Japanese are offered and taught by an exchange teacher
from Kobe College, Kobe, Japan.
The music department offers five choirs, three bands and two orchestras.
A wide variety of business education, family and consumer science, art, and technical
education classes provides breadth to the curriculum and specialized educational opportunities
for students.
RIGOROUS COURSE OPPORTUNITIES
:
Advanced Placement (AP) Courses
· Biology • Economics – Macro • Physics
· Calculus AB • Economics - Micro • Psychology
· Chemistry • English Literature • Statistics
· Computer Programming • Music Theory • U.S. History
University of Minnesota College in the Schools (CIS) Courses
· French IV • German III
· French V • German IV
St. Cloud State University Senior to Sophomore Program (S2S)
· Chemistry of Exercise Physiology
Dakota County Technical College Articulation Agreement Courses (CEC)
· Automated Accounting 1A • Child Psychology
· Automated Accounting 1B • Housing & Interior Design
Post-Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO)
Qualified juniors and seniors may attend eligible Minnesota post-secondary
institutions and can earn both college and high school credit.
Sibley High School has an 18-1 student to teacher ratio.
Facilities
- Auditorium
- 4 practice Soccer Fields
- 400 meter recycled rubber track
- 4 Computer Labs
- Film editing Lab
- Large Gym for Basketball and Track
- Small Gym for Volleyball, Gymnastics, Archery, and Baseball/Softball
- Fully Equipped weight room
- 5 total Basketball Courts
- 3 total Football fields
- 8 total Baseball fields
- 8 total Tennis Courts
- 2 Fully functioning science labs and a physics lab
Activities
Arts- Art Festival
- DebateDebateDebate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion...
- Danny Bernick and Robert Ciborowski State Champions 2009 - Drama Club
- Japanese culture club
- Jazz BandJazzJazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
- One-Act Plays
- Fiddles And Friends (orchestral performing group)
- Pep Band
- Pit Orchestra
- Chamber Singers
- Fall Play
- SpeechPublic speakingPublic speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners...
- Spring MusicalMusical theatreMusical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
- Ski/Snowboard Club
- Summer Marching Band
- Winter Drumline
Athletics
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- State Champions-1994, 4th place 2006 - BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- boys, girls - Boys State 2nd place 2008 ,Boys State appearance 2009 - CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
- Colorguard
- Cross-CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Boys 12th place State 2006, Boys 7th place State 2004 (Jonathan Stublaski, Nick Saucedo, Jon Vallez, Adam Casillas, Luke Kane, Scott Vaughn, Erik Hall) 1:26:48.5 - Dance Team- State Appearances 2005,2006,2007, 2008 and 2010
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- boys, girls - GymnasticsGymnasticsGymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
- HockeyHockeyHockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
- boys, girls - Lacrosse Club - boys
- Nordic SkiingNordic skiingNordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....
- Soccer - boys, girls
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
- boys, girls - TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- boys, girls - TrackTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
- boys, girls - State boys 17th place, 2007 - UltimateUltimate (sport)Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
- VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
- WrestlingScholastic wrestlingScholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
- Winterguard
Special Interests
- Almas
- Business Professionals of America (BPA)
- Chess ClubChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
- DebateDebateDebate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion...
- Environmental Club
- Film Club
- French Club
- Global Connections
- Interact
- Key ClubKey ClubKey Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
- Link Crew
- Math Team-State-24th place
- Mock Trial
- Model Assembly
- Model United NationsModel United NationsModel United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
- National Honor Society (NHS)
- RoboticsRoboticsRobotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...
- Recycling Club
- Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
- Student Congress
- Student CouncilStudent councilStudent council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...
- Upward BoundUpward BoundUpward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs referred to as TRIO, all of which owe their existence to the federal Higher Education Act of 1965. Upward Bound programs are implemented and monitored by the United States...
- YearbookYearbookA yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...
External links
- Independent School District 197 http://www.isd197.org/
- Class of '80http://www.sibley1980.com/
- Class of '82http://www.henrysibley82.com/
- Class of '83http://www.freewebs.com/henrysibleyclassof83/
- Class of '84http://www.sibley1984.com/
- Class of '85http://sibley1985.tripod.com/
- Class of '93http://www.sibleyclassof93.com/
- Class of '98http://www.tc.umn.edu/~leex1008/sibley98/