Edina High School
| Edina High School | |
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| Address | |
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6754 Valley View Road Edina, Minnesota United States |
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| Coordinates | 44°52′59″N 93°22′36″W / 44.8830399°N 93.3766162°WCoordinates: 44°52′59″N 93°22′36″W / 44.8830399°N 93.3766162°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1949 |
| Principal | Dr. Bruce Locklear |
| Number of students | 1,940 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Kelly Green and White |
| Athletics | Lake Conference |
| Team name | Hornets |
| Rivals |
Eden Prairie High School Wayzata High School |
| USNWR ranking | 197 |
| Average ACT scores | 23 |
| Newspaper | Zephyrus |
| Yearbook | Windigo |
| Website | www.edina.k12.mn.us/edinahigh |
Edina High School is a three-year public high school located in Edina, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The current student population is 1,940.
Edina High School was ranked as 197th best public high school in the United States according to U.S. News & World Report. Minnesota Department of Education certified Edina as a "Five Star School" and the U. S. Department of Education recognized it as a "National School of Excellence". Newsweek ranked the school #89 in their "List of the 1,200 Top High Schools in America", and the Grammy Foundation selected it as one of forty-two "Signature Schools" recognizing Edina's contributions to music education. Ninety-five percent of seniors go on to college and eighty-six percent finish in five years. 30% of Edina graduates responded in a recent survey that they conducted 10 years after graduation they had completed graduate school degrees or were pursuing graduate degrees .
A second high school, Edina West High School, opened in fall 1973, next to Valley View Junior High School, and Edina High School was renamed Edina East High School. Due to declining student enrollment, the two school combined eight years later. Edina East closed in spring 1981, and the building eventually became the Edina Community Center, the district administrative offices and Welcome Center, and the home of Normandale Elementary school, while Edina West became Edina High School.
Before a high school opened in Edina, students looking to extend their education past eighth grade had to find their way down to the old Central High School at 4th Avenue and South 11th Street in Minneapolis. By the 1940s some Edina students in grades 10 through 12 attended private high schools. Of those who could not afford to attend a private high school, some were enrolled at St. Louis Park High School while many others were being "farmed out" to West and Southwest High Schools in Minneapolis. In 1941, Minneapolis schools raised their tuition for out-of-city students, and despite the increase, Edina residents voted to pay the increased tuition rather than build their own high school.
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