Eden Prairie High School

Eden Prairie Senior High School
Address
17185 Valley View Road Eden Prairie, Minnesota United States
Information
Type	Public Secondary
Established	1923
Principal	Conn McCartan
Teaching staff	193
Grades	9-12
Number of students	3,184 [1]
Color(s)	Red, Black, and White
Mascot	Eagles
Newspaper	Eyrie
Website	http://ephs.edenpr.org/

Eden Prairie Senior High School (EPHS) is a four-year public high school located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota established in 1923. The present high school opened in 1981 and was significantly added to in 1990, 1994 and 1997. The school 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.

Map of Minnesota with Eden Prairie highlighted

With 3,184 students,^[2] Eden Prairie High School is the second largest high school in Minnesota by enrollment in 2011-12.^[3] In the 2010-11 school year, 79% of students were White, 9% were African American, 8% were Asian, and 4% were Hispanic.^[4]

Academics

Eden Prairie High School is on a block schedule. The school year consists of 171 student days, divided into four quarters. Each day consists of four periods, each of which are 87 minutes long. The high school offers over 350 courses, many of which are electives. Offered language courses include: Spanish, French, Sign Language, German and Chinese. Class size ranges from 29-34 students.^[4] On most Tuesdays, classes are shortened for a morning period of free time, called "Zero Hour", which is usually allocated to club meetings. EPHS currently utilizess an additional hour called "CORE," implemented in the 2014-2015 school year. CORE is dedicated to help students who need more help in courses and for students to have time with their teachers to prepare for an upcoming test or make up late work.

Eden Prairie High School regularly fields one of the largest number of National Merit Semifinalists in the state of Minnesota.

Facilities

The school is divided into four wings on three floors. The North Wing is home to the Auditorium, Performing Arts Center (PAC), the 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 of Eden Prairie High School is the New or East Commons lunch room, Math classrooms, Social Studies classrooms, and English classrooms. Lastly, the West Wing is home of the Business classrooms, Technology classrooms and labs, Health classrooms and the Economic classrooms. Also, each department has a resource center near the specific classrooms so that students can work in close proximity to their teachers when necessary.

Student activities

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 the eagLIT literary magazine; and both varsity and intramural sports. Eden Prairie high school boasts a wide variety of extracurricular activities which include: Band, Ceramics Sculpture, Chess Team, Chorus, Computer Arts, Dance, Drawing Painting, Orchestra, Math Team, Photography, Theater Drama, Video Film Production, and a Ukulele Club. ^[5]

Athletics

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 2008-2009.^[8] In the 2001-2002 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 also the only high school in Minnesota to send a team (pom squad) to the UDA National Dance Team Championship, where they have claimed 7 national titles (1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011). Rachel Bootsma, a 2012 Olympic gold medalist, is an Eden Prairie graduate and set records which still stand today.

[2]

1. ^ The 1999 state championship was a tie between Eden Prairie High School and Edina High School
2. ^ The Minnesota State High School League's first lacrosse tournaments for boys and girls were held in 2007. Prior to that year lacrosse was a U.S. Lacrosse Association Certified Club Sport.

Notable alumni

• Adam Bartley - actor notable for television's Longmire.^[10]
• Rachel Bootsma - Olympic gold medalist swimmer^[11]
• Carter Bykowski - football^[12]
• Cole De Vries - Minnesota Twins pitcher^[13]
• Jay Foreman – NFL linebacker; transferred to Minnetonka High School^[14]
• Nick Leddy- NHL player^[15]
• Neil Wagner - Major League Baseball pitcher^[16]
• Ryan Wittman - basketball player^[17]
• Ethan Wragge - basketball player^[18]

References

External links

• Official Website
• EPHS Parent Teacher Organization (PTO)
• EPHS Boosters Association
• Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools - Alumni Association

Coordinates: 44°52′18″N 93°29′34″W / 44.8718°N 93.4929°W / 44.8718; -93.4929