Eden Prairie High School | |
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17185 Valley View Road , , United States | |
Coordinates | 44°52′20″N93°29′40″W / 44.87209°N 93.49431°W |
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Former name | Eden Prairie Senior High School |
School type | Public, high school |
Established | 1923 |
Principal | Jaysen Anderson [1] |
Teaching staff | 155.15 (FTE) (2022–23) [2] |
Grades | 9–12 [2] |
Number of students | 2,833 (2022–23) [2] |
Student to teacher ratio | 18.26 (2022–23) [2] |
Color(s) | Red White Black |
Mascot | Eagle |
Rival | Edina High School |
Newspaper | The Eyrie [3] |
Website | Official website |
Eden Prairie High School (EPHS) is a four-year public high school in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States established in 1923. The present high school opened in 1981 and was significantly added to in 1990, 1994 and 1997. It was named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence in 1996 by the United States Department of Education. Eden Prairie High School is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Minnesota Department of Education.
In 2021–2022 Eden Prairie High School had 2,811 students. 53% of students were White, 17% were African American, 14% were Asian, 9% were Hispanic, and 6% were two or more races. [2]
The high school offers over 425 courses, many of which are electives. Language courses include Spanish, French, Sign Language, German and Chinese. Class size ranges from 29 to 34 students. [4]
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The school is divided into four wings on three floors. The North Wing is home to the auditorium, Performing Arts Center (PAC), Main Gym, small gym, machine shops, music classrooms and EagleVision television studios. The South Wing contains the Old Commons lunch room, science classrooms and labs, foreign language classrooms, a photography lab, and Special Services facilities. In the East Wing are the New or East Commons lunch room, math classrooms, social studies classrooms, and English classrooms. The West Wing is home of the business classrooms, technology classrooms and labs, health classrooms and economic classrooms. Each department has a resource center near the specific classrooms so that students can work near their teachers when necessary.
Student activities include fine arts; academic teams such as Quiz Bowl, Knowledge Bowl, and Future Problem Solvers; Team 2502, a robotics team; a variety of clubs, including the Eyrie newspaper and eagLIT literary magazine; and both varsity and intramural sports. Eden Prairie boasts a wide variety of extracurricular activities including Band, Ceramics Sculpture, Chess Team, Chorus, Computer Arts, Dance, Drawing Painting, Orchestra, Math Team, Photography, Theater Drama, Bible Study, and Video Film Production. [5]
Eden Prairie High School is a member of the Lake Conference in the Minnesota State High School League. In 2006, the football team was ranked by MaxPreps as the No. 11 team in the nation following a win in the 2006 State Championship. [6] In 2007, Sports Illustrated named Eden Prairie the top high school athletic program in Minnesota. [7] The high school was also recognized by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top Ten Athletic Programs in 2008–09. [8] In the 2001–02 school year, Eden Prairie's athletic budget was $1,460,433, the highest per capita of any high school in Minnesota. [9] Eden Prairie is the only high school in Minnesota to send a team (pom squad) to the UDA National Dance Team Championship, where they have claimed seven national titles (1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011).[ citation needed ].
State championships | |||
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Season | Sport | Number of championships | Year |
Fall | Soccer, boys' | 2 | 2002, 2011 |
Soccer, girls' | 2 | 2005, 2010 | |
Cross country running, boys' | 1 | 2009 | |
Cross country running, girls' | 3 | 1980, 2008, 2010 | |
Football | 11 | 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 | |
Volleyball | 1 | 2011 | |
Swimming and diving, girls' | 4 | 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 [1] | |
Winter | Alpine skiing, boys' | 1 | 2005 |
Nordic skiing, boys' | 3 | 1983, 1984, 2013 | |
Hockey, boys' | 3 | 2009, 2011, 2021 | |
Hockey, girls' | 3 | 2006, 2008, 2016 | |
Competitive cheerleading team | 4 | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 | |
Dance team, girls' | 5 | 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003 | |
Gymnastics, girls' | 5 | 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2005 | |
Swimming and diving, boys' | 7 | 2002, 2003, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2023 | |
Drumline | 7 | 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 | |
Quiz Bowl league | 6 | 1994, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014 | |
Spring | Baseball | 3 | 2004, 2010, 2017 |
Softball | 1 | 2002 | |
Badminton | 1 | 2001 | |
NAQT Quiz Bowl State | 5 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014 | |
Mock trial | 1 (not varsity) | 1996 | |
Golf, boys' | 2 | 1999, 2013 | |
Tennis, boys' | 1 | 2010 | |
Track, boys' | 2 | 2008, 2010 | |
Lacrosse, boys' | 4 [2] | 2004, 2012, 2013, 2014 | |
Lacrosse, girls' | 7 [2] | 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017 | |
Total | 86 | ||
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