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Eden Prairie High School

Eden Prairie High School (EPHS) is a four-year public high school in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States established in 1923. It 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.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Eden Prairie was served by four one-room schoolhouses: Anderson, Gould, Jarrett, and Wolf. As the city grew, the student population was regathered into the Eden Prairie Consolidated School. Eventually, Eden Prairie High School was officially established in 1923.

The present high school building opened in 1981 and was significantly added to in 1990, 1994 and 1997. Today, the building is divided into four wings on three floors. The North Wing is home to the auditorium, the Performing Arts Center, two gyms, machine shops, EagleVision television studios, and classrooms. The South Wing contains the Old Commons lunch room, classrooms, science labs, a photography lab, and Special Services facilities. In the East Wing are the New Commons lunch room and classrooms while the West Wing houses labs and additional classrooms. Each department has a resource center near the classrooms.

As of 2025, Eden Prairie High School has 2,844 students. 47.1% of students were White, 18.6% were African American, 15.6% were Asian, 11.5% were Hispanic, and 6.9% were two or more races. The school has a 94% graduation rate.

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.

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.

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).[citation needed].

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