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Highland Park High School (Minnesota)
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Highland Park Senior High School is a public secondary school in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...
, United States
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serving grades 9 through 12. It is located in the Highland Park neighborhood.
Blue Ribbon Schools Program
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ranked the school #973 in their "List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America."
Academics
Motivated students in all three Communities may take International Baccalaureate (offered since 1994) and Advanced PlacementAdvanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...
courses. They also offer the College in the Schools
College in the Schools
College in the Schools is an educational program for high school students run by the University of Minnesota. It allows students to take college level classes in their high school and, as a result, earn college and high school credit for free. The classes are taught by high school teachers who...
program in conjunction with the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
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Languages
Highland Park offers a number of foreign languages, including:- SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, including the secondary component of Saint Paul Public Schools' Spanish immersionLanguage immersionLanguage immersion is a method of teaching a second language in which the target language is used as the means of instruction. Unlike more traditional language courses, where the target language is simply the subject material, language immersion uses the target language as a teaching tool,...
program. - FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
- Mandarin Chinese
- Formerly American Sign LanguageAmerican Sign LanguageAmerican Sign Language, or ASL, for a time also called Ameslan, is the dominant sign language of Deaf Americans, including deaf communities in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico...
; 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. 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.
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, the school's current enrollment is 1467. 36% of students are Caucasian American, 28% are African AmericanAfrican American
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, 21% are Asian American
Asian American
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, 14% are Hispanic American, and 1% are American Indian
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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. In addition, 22% are English language learners
English language learning and teaching
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, 15% are in Special Education
Special education
Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...
programs, and 56% are eligible for the free and reduced lunch program. The student to teacher ratio is 21.6.
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 LegionAmerican Legion
The American Legion is a mutual-aid organization of veterans of the United States armed forces chartered by the United States Congress. It was founded to benefit those veterans who served during a wartime period as defined by Congress...
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. Mattocks Schoolhouse is "essentially a Greek Revival building with some Italianate details."
Notable alumni
- Richard Cohen, Minnesota state senatorMinnesota SenateThe Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. In terms of membership, it is the largest upper house of any state legislature. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House...
(DFL) (1967) - Janie Mayeron, U.S. Magistrate Judge (1969)
- Jack MorrisJack MorrisJohn Scott "Jack" Morris is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He played in 18 big league seasons between 1977 and 1994, mainly for the Detroit Tigers, and won 254 games throughout his career...
, former Major League BaseballMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
pitcher (1973) - Duane G. CareyDuane G. CareyDuane Gene "Digger" Carey is an engineer and former NASA Astronaut. Born April 30, 1957, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Married to the former Cheryl Ann Tobritzhofer of Saint Paul, Minnesota. They have two children. He enjoys motorcycle travel, racing motocross, camping, home-schooling his children,...
, former U.S. astronaut (1975) - EyedeaEyedeaMicheal Larsen , known by his stage name Eyedea, was a well-known freestyle battle champion and underground rapper. His notable wins included the televised Blaze Battle sponsored by HBO and a victory at Scribble Jam...
, born Micheal Larsen, rapper (1999) - Deborah Hertz, Herman WoukHerman WoukHerman Wouk is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author of novels including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.-Biography:...
Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...