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Edina High School
Location
6754 Valley View Road Edina , Minnesota United States
Coordinates	44°52′59″N93°22′36″W / 44.8830399°N 93.3766162°W /44.8830399; -93.3766162[1]
Information
Type	Public
Established	1949
Principal	Paul Paetzel
Staff	135.70 (FTE)[2]
Grades	9–12
Number of students	2,585 (2023–2024)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	19.05[2]
Campus	Suburban
Colors	Kelly Green andWhite
Athletics	Lake Conference
Mascot	Hornet
Team name	Edina Hornets
Rival	Eden Prairie
USNWR ranking	302
Newspaper	Zephyrus
Yearbook	Whigrean
Website	https://ehs.edinaschools.org/

Edina High School is a four-yearpublichigh school located inEdina, Minnesota, United States, a suburb ofMinneapolis. The current student population is 2,720.

Edina High School was ranked as 428th best public high school in the United States according toU.S. News & World Report.^[3] Minnesota Department of Education certified Edina as a "Five Star School" and theU. S. Department of Education recognized it as a "National School of Excellence".Newsweek ranked the school #89 in their "List of the 1,200 Top High Schools in America",^[4] and theGrammy Foundation selected it as one of forty-two "Signature Schools" recognizing Edina's contributions to music education. Ninety-five percent of seniors go on to college and eighty-six percent finish in five years. 30% of Edina graduates responded in a recent survey that they conducted 10 years aftergraduation they had completedgraduate school degrees or were pursuing graduate degrees.^[5]

A second high school,Edina West High School, opened in fall 1972, next to Valley View Junior High School, and Edina High School was renamedEdina East High School. Due to declining student enrollment, the two schools combined eight years later. Edina East closed in spring 1981, and the building eventually became the Edina Community Center, the district administrative offices and Welcome Center, and the home of Normandale Elementary school, while Edina West became Edina High School.

Before a high school opened in Edina, students looking to extend their education past eighth grade had to find their way down to the old Central High School at 4th Avenue and South 11th Street inMinneapolis.^[6] By the 1940s some Edina students in grades 10 through 12 attendedprivate high schools. Of those who could not afford to attend a private high school, some were enrolled atSt. Louis Park High School while many others were being "farmed out" to West and Southwest High Schools in Minneapolis. In 1941, Minneapolis schools raised their tuition for out-of-city students, and despite the increase, Edina residents voted to pay the increased tuition rather than build their own high school.

During the mid-1940s, support for an Edina-Morningside junior and senior high school was increasing. However,World War II and the resulting shortage of building materials delayed construction of the Edina-Morningside Junior and Edina-Morningside Senior High School. But after the war, support for the new school began to resurface. Two sites for the new school had the most support. One was on the property that is currently occupied by the Edina Country Club near 50th Street and Wooddale Avenue and the other was at West 56th Street and Normandale Road. Although the 50th and Wooddale site was the center of the village's population at the time, the 56th and Normandale site was nearer to the school district's geographic center and was the eventual site chosen to build the new school.

The first high school to open in Edina, later known as Edina East, is now the site of the Edina Community Center and Normandale Elementary School. It was built as a combination high school/junior high. A $1.25 million school bond issue was passed in 1946 by the residents of Edina and ground was broken in October 1947. A year later the school was dedicated. It was not until the fall of 1949 that classes began and it was at that time that the student body chose the school colors (green and white) and the school mascot, the Hornet. The school had 28classrooms, 11 special rooms andlaboratories, alibrary and a special radio room. In 1952, one year after the first class graduated, agymnasium andauditorium were added to the building.

In the 1960s, the high school was becoming overcrowded. As a result, on October 20, 1970, a $9.255 million bond issue was approved by voters to construct a new high school attached toValley View Junior High School. Construction of the new high school began on May 24, 1971 and the school was opened in the fall of 1972. The Edina East High School retained the "Hornets" and Edina West High School became the "Cougars".

In 1981 Edina East was closed and Edina West was renamed Edina High School. The newly unified school decided on the "Hornets" nickname. Part of the old high school building was converted to the Edina kindergarten center in 1987 and the Edina Senior Center. As of 2015, the building is used as a community center, housing the Normandale French Immersion K-5 elementary school, the school district's main offices and the school district's Welcome Center.

In November 2003, city of Edina residents passed an $85.8 millionbondreferendum^[7] to renovate all school facilities in the district, with the high school undergoing major renovations. Construction began on the high school in May 2004 and was completed in 2007.

Edina High School completed its $60 million renovations in September 2017. As a result, Edina High School now contains space to host grades 9-12 instead of grades 10-12.

• The school yearbook is titledWhigrean, Meaning white and green annual.
• The school newspaper isZephyrus, and is a member of the High School National Ad Network
• The school has a student-published literary arts magazine entitledImages [on the wind].
• Theater: In 2011, Edina was the first high school in Minnesota to perform on the Main Stage of theInternational Thespian Festival in over forty years, where they performedAnything Goes. In 2013, they brought "Fiddler on the Roof" to the Main Stage at theInternational Thespian Festival. In 2016, they were one of the first high schools in the nation to perform aDisney-sponsored show called "Peter and the Starcatcher", which they once again brought to the Main Stage. In 2018, they brought "The Visit" to the Main Stage at theInternational Thespian Festival.
• Debate: Edina has a nationally recognized debate team, which has been nationally ranked in the recent past (16th in 2009-10^[8] and 19th in 2010-11)^[9]
• Edina has a nationally recognizedFIRST Robotics Competition Team: Team 1816, "The Green Machine". They won the FIRST Championship The FIRST Impact Award (formerly the Chairman's Award),^[10] the highest honor a robotics team can receive, earning them a spot in the Hall of Fame at the 2019FIRST Championship^[10]
• Edina High School has had an Ultimate Frisbee program since 2003 that competes both locally in the Minnesota Ultimate High School League, and nationally through USA Ultimate-sanctioned tournaments. The Boys & Girls teams have combined to win a state record 13 State Championships. Girls Varsity in 2014, 2019, 2021 and 2022^[11] and Boys Varsity in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.^[12]

Edina High School is a member of theLake Conference of theMinnesota State High School League. Previously a member of the Lake Conference and the Classic Lake Conference, the school joined the new Lake Conference in 2010. Edina claims 210 athletic high school state championships, a state record, with most of them earned intennis,swimming &diving, and boyshockey. In 2000, the school was recognized as the first school in the state of Minnesota to win more than 100 state championships. In 2019, the record was broken for most state championships won in a school year as Edina claimed 8 titles. Theboys' hockey team has won a state-record fourteen^[13] championships (including three titles by Edina East), eight underWillard Ikola alone. Edina held the record for most consecutive state championships in girls tennis with fifteen from 1978 to 1992.^[14] In 2012, Edina broke their own record by winning nineteen straight state championships from 1997 to 2015. In June 2023, Edina was the first school in Minnesota to achieve 200 state championships.

In 2005, Sports Illustrated ranked Edina as the 8th best sports program in the United States.^[15]

Key: E = Edina East, W = Edina West, * = Not included in MSHSL count

1. ^ Prior to the inception of theMinnesota State High School League football tournament, the Edina Hornets were ranked #1 in the state for the following years: 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971
2. ^ Denotes state record
3. ^ The 1999 state championship was a tie betweenEden Prairie High School and Edina High School; this was the first tie at a state championship in Minnesota

The class of 2014 was 82% White, 6% American Asian/Pacific Islander, 5% Black/African-American, 4% Hispanic/Latino, 2% Other, and 1% Native American.^[19] The class was also 51% Male, 48.9% Female, and 0.2% Transgender.^[19]

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• Roy J. Bostock (class of 1958), business executive
• Robert Bruss (class of 1958), lawyer, real estate broker, author, and newspaper columnist
• Dave MacLennan (class of 1977) former CEO of Cargill Edina-East
• Brian J. Dunn (class ofc. 1978), former CEO ofBest Buy
• Ron Johnson (class of 1977), former CEO ofJ.C. Penney, former Senior Vice President of Retail Operations atApple Inc.

• Ron Johnson (class of 1973) (attended), current Republican Senator of Wisconsin^[20]
• Mary Anderson Pawlenty (class of 1979), Minnesota District Court Judge and wife of former Minnesota GovernorTim Pawlenty^[21]
• Erin Matson (class of 1998), action vice president of the National Organization for Women

• Jeff Wright (class of 1967), former safety with theMinnesota Vikings
• Bill Nyrop (class of 1970), hockey player who played for theMontreal Canadiens and was a member of threeStanley Cup winning teams (1976,1977, and1978)
• Paul Siebert (class of 1971), Major League Baseball pitcher forHouston Astros,San Diego Padres, andNew York Mets
• Brian Burke (class of 1973), general manager and executive VP,Toronto Maple Leafs^[22] and2010 United States Men's Olympic Ice Hockey Silver Medalist Team^[23]
• Gord Hampson (class of 1977), retiredNational Hockey League player.^[24]
• Karl Mecklenburg (class of 1978 West), NFL Pro-Bowl linebacker with theDenver Broncos
• Greg Olson (class of 1979), former catcher for theAtlanta Braves
• Chris Perry (class of 1980), golfer with onePGA Tour victory
• Paul Ranheim (class of 1984), hockey player who played for Calgary, Hartford, Carolina, Philadelphia, and Phoenix from 1988 to 2003
• Jenny Schmidgall-Potter (class of 1997), ice hockey player and gold medalist at the1998 Nagano Games
• Hilary Lunke (class of 1997), golfer, winner of the 2003U.S. Women's Open
• Adam Goldberg (class of 1998), former NFL player^[25]
• David Ostlund (class of 1999), semi-professionalWorld's Strongest Man competitor
• Joe Finley (class of 2006), NHL first round draft pick (27th overall) of the Washington Capitals, former North Dakota Fighting Sioux Defensemen.
• Kaylin Richardson (class of 2003),2006 and2010 Olympic skier
• Mike Rallis (class of 2007), wrestler formerly signed to WWE under the ring name Madcap Moss
• Anders Lee (class of 2009), hockey player; team captain of theNew York Islanders beginning in 2018
• Nick Rallis (class of 2012), defensive coordinator for theArizona Cardinals
• Reggie Lynch (born 1994), basketball player forBnei Herzliya of theIsraeli Basketball Premier League^[26]
• Anthony Walsh (class of 2013), hockey player, coach, children's book author
• Jordan Thompson (class of 2015), volleyball player, member of the United States national team that won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Kieffer Bellows (class of 2016), hockey player who is a free agent and played for theNew York Islanders and forBoston University from 2016-2017
• Tommy Doyle (class of 2016), football player for the NFL'sBuffalo Bills
• Maddie Dahlien (class of 2022), soccer player^[27]
• Izzy Engle (class of 2024), soccer player^[28]
• Mason West (class of 2026), hockey player drafted by the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks

• Stan Freese (class of 1962), tuba player, band director, and talent booking and casting director withThe Walt Disney Company
• Julia Duffy (class of 1969), actress
• Barbara Peterson Burwell (class of 1972),Miss USA 1976^[29]
• David Bloom (class of 1981), news reporter, NBC^[29]
• Christopher Straub (class of 1997), contestant on the television showProject Runway; finished fifth in the sixth season
• Paris Bennett (class of 2004) (through 11th grade), contestant on the television showAmerican Idol; finished fifth in the fifth season^[30]
• Jenny Taft (class of 2006), sportscaster^[31]

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