Highland Park Senior High School | |
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Address | |
1015 Snelling Avenue South , 55116 United States | |
Coordinates | 44°54′39″N93°10′1″W / 44.91083°N 93.16694°W Coordinates: 44°54′39″N93°10′1″W / 44.91083°N 93.16694°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | Challenge, Envision, Achieve |
Established | 1964 |
School district | Saint Paul Public Schools |
Principal | Winston Tucker |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 1,340 (2021-22) [1] |
Campus | Urban |
Color(s) | Red and White |
Athletics conference | Saint Paul City Conference |
Mascot | Scots |
Rival | Central High School |
Newspaper | The Plaid Line [2] |
Yearbook | Tartan |
Website | https://spps.org/highlandsr |
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. [3] It is a national Blue Ribbon School. Newsweek ranked the school #973 in their "2005 List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America." [4]
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The school has received grants from the Bush Foundation and Gates Foundation to develop the Small Learning Communities model. Motivated students in all three Communities may take International Baccalaureate courses.
Highland Park offers a number of foreign languages, including: [5]
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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 had 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. The school also boasted a soccer team that won the conference 4 straight years 2003-07. Tony Levine played wide receiver for the football team and was chosen for the Minnesota All-State team his senior year, in 1991. The Highland Park girls cross country & nordic skiing teams have also won several championships, respectively. [6]
The baseball team coached by Peter Brown won the Saint Paul City Conference from 2011–13 and held the second-longest winning streak in conference play in the state of Minnesota. [7]
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. [8] [9] [10] Mattocks Schoolhouse is "essentially a Greek Revival building with some Italianate details." [11] [12]
According to the most recent school profile, the school's current enrollment is around 1340. 36% of students are White, 22% are African American, 13% are Asian American, 22% are Hispanic American, 7% are Multiracial and 1% are American Indian. [13] In addition, 11% are English language learners, 8% are in Special Education programs, and 36% are eligible for the free and reduced lunch program. The student to teacher ratio is 24:1. [14]
Enrollment profile | 2021-22 [15] | 2020-21 [15] | 2019-20 [15] | 2018-19 [15] | 2017-18 [15] |
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White | 36% | 37% | 36% | 36% | 38% |
Black or African American | 22% | 23% | 22% | 23% | 22% |
Asian | 13% | 14% | 15% | 15% | 17% |
Hispanic or Latino | 22% | 22% | 23% | 23% | 23% |
American Indian | <1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | <1% | - | - | - | - |
Multiracial | 7% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 2% |
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