Highland Park High School (Minnesota)
| Highland Park Senior High School | |
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1015 Snelling Avenue South Saint Paul, Minnesota 55116 United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Challenge, Envision, Achieve |
| School district | Saint Paul Public Schools |
| Principal | Winston Tucker |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1218 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Red and White |
| Mascot | Scots |
| National ranking | 687 |
| Yearbook | Tartan |
| Phone number | (651) 293-8940 |
| Website | http://highlandsr.spps.org/ |
Coordinates: 44°54′39″N 93°10′1″W / 44.91083°N 93.16694°W
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. It is a national Blue Ribbon School. Newsweek ranked the school #973 in their "2005 List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America."
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:
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.
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