| Mayo High School | |
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 Mayo High School main entrance | |
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1420 11th Avenue Southeast 55904 United States | |
| Coordinates | 44°0′10″N92°26′51″W / 44.00278°N 92.44750°W /44.00278; -92.44750 |
| Information | |
| Type | Coed Public High School |
| Motto | "To be a Spartan is to be the very best that one can be" |
| Established | 1966 |
| CEEB code | 242103 |
| Principal | Troy Prigge |
| Teaching staff | 79.99 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,820 (2023–2024)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 22.75[1] |
| Colors | Green and gold |
| Mascot | Sparty the Mayo Spartan |
| Nickname | Spartans |
| Newspaper | Advocate |
| Yearbook | Odyssey |
| Website | mayo |
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Mayo High School (Mayo) is a public high school inRochester, Minnesota, United States. It is named after the brothersWilliam James Mayo andCharles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of theMayo Clinic. It is a public school and part of the Rochester Independent School District #535. It is notable for being constructed in an almost perfect circle aside from a few appendages, and for housing the Rochester Planetarium. The current principal of Mayo High School is Troy Prigge.
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Mayo High School was built in 1966 in the southeastern section ofRochester, Minnesota. It has a capacity to hold approximately 1800 students (although historically the student populations of both Mayo andJohn Marshall high schools have exceeded well over 2,000 students) and was the largesthigh school in the city untilCentury High School was built, and was named after the brothersWilliam James Mayo andCharles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders ofMayo Clinic.
As of 2020, there are 1689 students attending Mayo High School.[3] There are 92 teachers and a student to teacher ratio of 18:1. The boy to girl student ratio is 51:49.[4]
The schoolmascot 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 inspeech,chess,classic debate,theatre,mock trial,football,tennis,swimming,cross country,soccer,lacrosse,softball,baseball,rowing,basketball,golf,hockey,volleyball,track and field,Science Olympiad,FIRST Robotics Competition team,Math League, andKnowledge Bowl. Students may also letter in citywide athletics such as crew with the Rochester Rowing Club, figure-skating with the Rochester Figure Skating Club, Nordic skiing with the Rochester Nordic Ski Team, and mountain biking with the Rochester Mountain Bike Team.
Mayo High School participates in many sports, competing in the Big 9 conference within theMinnesota State High School League, usually at the largest class level. The sports available are boysbaseball, boys and girlsbasketball, boys and girlscross country, boys and girlshockey, girlscheerleading, boysfootball, boys and girlssoccer, boys and girlsgolf, girlssoftball, boys and girlsswimming, girls dance team, boys and girlstrack and field, boys and girlstennis, boyswrestling, and girlsvolleyball, andbowling.
The boys' tennis team won a state championship in 2007 and 2011.[5][6]
The women’s tennis team won a state championship in 2023, 2024, and 2025.[7]
Mayo High School acquired the removable NFL football turf from the Minnesota Vikings after the demolition of the Metrodome in 2014.
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