Eden Prairie High School

Demographics

In 2021–2022 Eden Prairie High School had 2,811 students. 53% of students were White, 17% were African American, 14% were Asian, 9% were Hispanic, and 6% were two or more races.

Academics

The high school offers over 425 courses, many of which are electives. Language courses include Spanish, French, Sign Language, German and Chinese. Class size ranges from 29 to 34 students.

Facilities

The school is divided into four wings on three floors. The North Wing is home to the auditorium, Performing Arts Center (PAC), 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 are the New or East Commons lunch room, math classrooms, social studies classrooms, and English classrooms. The West Wing is home of the business classrooms, technology classrooms and labs, health classrooms and economic classrooms. Each department has a resource center near the specific classrooms so that students can work near 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 eagLIT literary magazine; and both varsity and intramural sports. Eden Prairie boasts a wide variety of extracurricular activities including Band, Ceramics Sculpture, Chess Team, Chorus, Computer Arts, Dance, Drawing Painting, Orchestra, Math Team, Photography, Theater Drama, Bible Study, and Video Film Production.

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. In 2007, Sports Illustrated named Eden Prairie the top high school athletic program in Minnesota. The high school was also recognized by *Sports Illustrated *as one of the Top Ten Athletic Programs in 2008–09. In the 2001–02 school year, Eden Prairie's athletic budget was $1,460,433, the highest per capita of any high school in Minnesota. Eden Prairie is the only high school in Minnesota to send a team (pom squad) to the UDA National Dance Team Championship, where they have claimed seven national titles (1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011)..

1. The 1999 state championship resulted in 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
• David Baszucki – Roblox co-founder
• Jackson Blake – ice hockey player
• Rachel Bootsma – Olympic gold medalist swimmer
• Carter Bykowski – professional football player
• Blake Cashman – professional football player
• Ryan Connelly – professional football player
• Carter Coughlin - professional football player
• Cole De Vries – professional baseball player
• Jay Foreman – professional football player
• Daerek Hart - Professional esports player
• Jermaine Johnson II - professional football player
• Nick Leddy – professional ice hockey player
• Ken Martin - politician
• Casey Mittelstadt – professional ice hockey player
• Lúcia Moniz – Portuguese singer who represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996; attended Eden Prairie High School as a foreign exchange student
• Susan Rapp – Olympic swimmer
• Robert Rudolph Remus, retired professional wrestler known as Sgt. Slaughter
• Benny Sapp III – professional football player
• Nick Seeler – professional ice hockey player
• Neil Wagner – professional baseball player
• Antoine Winfield Jr. - professional football player
• Ryan Wittman – basketball player
• Ethan Wragge – basketball player

References

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3. "Eden Prairie Schools ISD #272".
4. "General Info / Contact Us".
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