Eden Prairie High School

History

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.

Demographics

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.

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.

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)..

^The 1999 state championship resulted in a tie between Eden Prairie High School and Edina High School.

^ 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 actress and 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