St. Anthony Village High School
Encyclopedia
St. Anthony Village High School is a public high school
located in St. Anthony, Minnesota
.
, and it has over 500 students. It attracts a large number of open-enrollment students from other communities. The
school shares facilities with St. Anthony Village Middle School.
ranked the school #429 in their "List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America." Additionally, St. Anthony is a participant in the University of Minnesota
's College in the Schools
program. Its academic teams also do well: St. Anthony won the 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2011 AA knowledge bowl
competitions and the 2005 Minnesota Science Bowl competition.
championships. Baseball games are played at Palm Field and football games at Denison Field.
The St. Anthony's RoboHuskie team has participated in the FIRST Robotics program since the 2007-2008 season. They earned the Highest Seeded Rookie award at the Milwaukee Regional in 2008. RoboHuskie earned the 2nd seed during the 2009 10,000 Lakes Regional. In 2010 they won the Wisconsin regional competition and went to Atlanta, Georgia for the nationals.
St. Anthony recently rejoined the Tri-Metro Conference
. Previously, it had competed in the Metro Alliance
after leaving the Tri-Metro in 1997, returning after the latter disbanded in 2005. They compete in most sports at the 2A level.
The school is not large enough to support all sports on its own, so boys’ hockey
is concurrent with Irondale High School
and girls’ hockey
, co-ed soccer, co-ed Nordic skiing, wrestling, and co-ed track are joint-teams with Spring Lake Park High School.
St. Anthony has historically had a rivalry with neighboring Columbia Heights High School, and it has conference rivalries with DeLaSalle High School
and Minnehaha Academy
.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in St. Anthony, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
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School Overview
St. Anthony Village High School is the only high school serving ISD #282St. Anthony-New Brighton School District
St. Anthony-New Brighton School District, Minnesota Independent School District #282, is the school district serving all of St. Anthony Village and part of New Brighton, Minnesota. The current district superintendent is Rod Thompson...
, and it has over 500 students. It attracts a large number of open-enrollment students from other communities. The
school shares facilities with St. Anthony Village Middle School.
Academics
St. Anthony traditionally does very well in standardized tests in the state and is quite successful academically. NewsweekNewsweek
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ranked the school #429 in their "List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America." Additionally, St. Anthony is a participant in 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...
's 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. Its academic teams also do well: St. Anthony won the 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2011 AA knowledge bowl
Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet
The Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet is an annual, two-day event sponsored by the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, which is Minnesota's governing body of Knowledge Bowl...
competitions and the 2005 Minnesota Science Bowl competition.
Athletics
St. Anthony’s team mascot is the Huskie. The team won the 2006 and 2008 State AA baseballBaseball
Baseball 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...
championships. Baseball games are played at Palm Field and football games at Denison Field.
The St. Anthony's RoboHuskie team has participated in the FIRST Robotics program since the 2007-2008 season. They earned the Highest Seeded Rookie award at the Milwaukee Regional in 2008. RoboHuskie earned the 2nd seed during the 2009 10,000 Lakes Regional. In 2010 they won the Wisconsin regional competition and went to Atlanta, Georgia for the nationals.
St. Anthony recently rejoined the Tri-Metro Conference
Tri-Metro Conference (Minnesota)
The Tri-Metro Conference is a MSHSL-sanctioned athletic conference composed of schools found in the Twin Cities metro area. The conference competes in the majority of sports offered in the MSHSL. Most teams in the Tri-Metro compete in basketball and football tournaments at the AA or AAA level....
. Previously, it had competed in the Metro Alliance
Metro Alliance
The Metro Alliance was a Minnesota State High School League-sanctioned athletics conference that existed from 1997 to 2005. The conference was formed for the 1997-98 school year by seven schools. The majority of the schools came from the Tri-Metro Conference and included Brooklyn Center High...
after leaving the Tri-Metro in 1997, returning after the latter disbanded in 2005. They compete in most sports at the 2A level.
The school is not large enough to support all sports on its own, so boys’ hockey
Hockey
Hockey 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:...
is concurrent with Irondale High School
Irondale High School
Irondale High School is a public high school located in New Brighton, Minnesota. A part of the Mounds View Public Schools district, the high school is located in a suburban area approximately ten miles north of downtown Minneapolis and Saint Paul. It includes grade 9-12, and was founded in 1967...
and girls’ hockey
Hockey
Hockey 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:...
, co-ed soccer, co-ed Nordic skiing, wrestling, and co-ed track are joint-teams with Spring Lake Park High School.
St. Anthony has historically had a rivalry with neighboring Columbia Heights High School, and it has conference rivalries with DeLaSalle High School
DeLaSalle High School (Minneapolis)
DeLaSalle High School is a Catholic, college preparatory high school located for its entire 111-year history on Nicollet Island, adjacent to downtown Minneapolis, USA. Then-Archbishop John Ireland helped raise money to build the new Catholic secondary school in Minneapolis. Only a few months...
and Minnehaha Academy
Minnehaha Academy
Minnehaha Academy is a Christian private school in Minneapolis, Minnesota for students in preschool through 12th grade, and established in 1913. It is owned by the Northwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church, and is located in the Cooper and Longfellow neighborhoods. The student body...
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Notable alumni
- Phil CarruthersPhil CarruthersPhil Carruthers is a former Minnesota politician and former member and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He is currently the director of the Civil Division at the Ramsey County Attorney's Office....
, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of RepresentativesMinnesota House of RepresentativesThe Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B... - Dr. Mallory Thompson, Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....