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Mayo High School main entrance
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1420 11th Avenue Southeast Rochester, Minnesota 55904 United States |
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Coordinates | 44°0′10″N 92°26′51″W / 44.00278°N 92.44750°WCoordinates: 44°0′10″N 92°26′51″W / 44.00278°N 92.44750°W |
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Type | Coed Public High School |
Motto | "To be a Spartan is to be the very best one can be" |
Established | 1966 |
CEEB code | 242103 |
Principal | Tom Olson |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 1622 (May 21, 2014) |
Color(s) | Green & Gold |
Mascot | Sparty the Mayo Spartan |
Nickname | Spartans |
Newspaper | Advocate |
Yearbook | Odyssey |
Website | School website |
Mayo High School (Mayo) is an American high school in Rochester, Minnesota. It is named after the brothers William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of the Mayo Clinic. It is a public school and part of the Rochester Independent School District #535. The current principal of Mayo High School is Tom Olson.
Mayo High School was built in 1966 in the southeastern section of Rochester, Minnesota. It has a capacity to hold approximately 1800 students and was the largest high school in the city until Century High School was built, and was named after the brothers William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of Mayo Clinic.
As of 2014, there are 1622 students attending Mayo High School. There are 87 teachers and a student to teacher ratio of 19:1. The boy to girl student ratio is 51:49.
The school mascot is a Spartan warrior. The sports teams, students, and staff are known as the Mayo Spartans. The school colors are green and gold. It has teams in speech, chess, classic debate, mock trial, football, tennis, swimming, cross country, soccer, lacrosse, softball, baseball, rowing, basketball, golf, hockey, volleyball, track and field, Science Olympiad, First Robotics Team, Math League, and Knowledge Bowl. Students may also letter in city-wide athletics such as crew with the Rochester Rowing Club and figure-skating with the Rochester Figure Skating Club.