Patrick Henry High School (Minneapolis)

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Patrick Henry High School
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Patrick Henry High School (Minneapolis)
4320 Newton Avenue North

Minneapolis
,
Minnesota

United States
Coordinates 45°02′04″N93°18′19″W / 45.0344°N 93.3053°W / 45.0344; -93.3053
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Type Public secondary
Established1937 [1] [2]
School district Minneapolis Public Schools
PrincipalLiza Anderson
Teaching staff67.53 (FTE) [3]
Grades9–12
Number of students1,057 (2018–19) [3]
Student to teacher ratio15.65 [3]
CampusUrban
Color(s) Red and Grey   
Athletics Minneapolis City Conference
MascotPatriots
Website http://henry.mpls.k12.mn.us/

Patrick Henry High School, or simply Patrick Henry, is a public secondary school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is located in the city's Camden neighborhood. The school is named for American Founding Father Patrick Henry and is referred to colloquially by community members as "Patrick Henry" or "Henry". It had a student population of about 1,000 by the early 2020s. [4] In 2023, the school board approved renaming the building to Camden High School with the change set to take effect during the 2024-25 school year. [5] [6]

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History

Renovations

After renovations in the late 1990s moved the main entrance, the address of the school became 4320 Newton Avenue North.

Name change

In 2018, community members reexamined the legacy of naming the school for Patrick Henry—a slave owner. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul in 2020, an advisory committee to the Minneapolis Public Schools unanimously approved a name-change process for the high school with funding to rebrand the school at some point during the 2022-2023 school year. [7] Camden High, to match the name of the neighborhood, was the preferred option by the public and approved by the school board. The change will formally take place for the 2024-25 school year. [5] [6]

Academics

Like all Minneapolis high schools, Henry is composed of several "small learning communities" or SLCs. Henry's premier program is its International Baccalaureate program, which draws from parts of North, Northeast, Southeast, and some of South Minneapolis. The Class of 2007 featured twenty IB Diploma candidates. [8] Henry also has an Engineering program, and a liberal arts program. The school is IB Certified for Diploma Programme (DP) and is also certified for IB's Middle Years Programme (MYP) as well.

U.S. News & World Report ranked Patrick Henry as the 68th best in Minnesota in 2022. [4] Among schools with equivalent levels of poverty, Patrick Henry is one of very few in the country showing significant academic success.[ citation needed ]

For many years, Henry struggled with low enrollment and poor academic quality.[ citation needed ] Since the 1990s, however, the school has benefited from the introduction of the IB program, corporate grants, a mentorship program for new teachers, and the strong leadership of former principals Cheryl Creecy, Michael Huerth (a recipient of the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Award), and Paul McMahan. The transition from being known as "Minneapolis Henry" to being called "Patrick Henry" occurred under Principal McMahan as part of the school's renaissance.[ citation needed ]

Recent Patrick Henry graduates have been accepted and have matriculated to various prestigious colleges and universities, including: Harvard University, Tuskegee University, Carleton College, Purdue University, Dartmouth College, Emory University, and Brown University (among others).

Athletics

Henry's most notable sports team in recent years has been its boys' basketball team, which won four straight state championships in the AAA division under coach Larry McKenzie from 2000 to 2003. The team had some success before then as well, reaching the state final in 1998, and often defeating its rival North High School, led at the time by Khalid El-Amin. The basketball team previously won state championships in 1944 and 1945. The alpine skiing team won the state championship in 1941, and the boys' track and field team won the state championship in the AA division in 1990, led by "Leapin'" Leonard Jones.[ citation needed ]

Although the school had a thriving men's hockey team, the shift in demographics coincided with a decline in the interest in the sport. The sport was dropped at Patrick Henry. By 2010, both all hockey teams at all seven Minneapolis public high schools were merged into a collective Minneapolis boys team and girls team. [9]

Beyond the sports, Henry has a vast array of other extracurriculars, the most notable of which being their math and robotics teams. Henry has one of the largest math teams in the city; coach John Heisel has managed to recruit a considerable number of students every year. Henry's robotics team, Herobotics, is known as one of the top teams in the state of Minnesota; they have won many awards, and advanced to the FIRST Championship seven times in their ten-year history.[ citation needed ]

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