Hopkins High School
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Hopkins High School is a public high school located in Minnetonka, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, a southwestern suburb of Minneapolis. It offers classes for grades 10, 11, and 12. Hopkins High School is part of the Hopkins School District 270 and draws students from the city of Hopkins, central and eastern parts of Minnetonka, western Edina, northern Eden Prairie, Golden Valley, western St. Louis Park, and southern Plymouth. (Minnetonka High School
Minnetonka High School
Minnetonka High School is a public comprehensive high school that is located in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a western suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul. With almost 3,000 students, it is the 3rd largest high school in Minnesota behind neighboring Wayzata and Eden Prarie high schools...

 draws students from western Minnetonka.)

In the 1970s, there were two high schools in the district: Dwight D. Eisenhower Senior High School, named for the former general and U.S. president and Charles A. Lindbergh Senior High School named for the Minnesota native and famed aviator. In 1982, Hopkins closed Eisenhower High School, located in a 1950s-era building along Highway 7, and renamed the remaining school Hopkins Senior High School. The older building was converted to a community center and theater. Later part of the building was converted for use as an elementary school.

In 2003, voters approved a $60 million bond, permitting the construction of a 60000 square feet (5,574.2 m²) addition to the high school, consisting of a new auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...

, cafeteria
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...

 and classrooms. Two years later, the Hopkins School District was declared in statutory operating debt by the State of Minnesota. Many support staff were laid off and class sizes increased by more than 30%. In 2007/08, the statutory label was removed.

Academics

Hopkins High School was Minnesota's first National School of Excellence. In 1996, Hopkins was the only high school in Minnesota honored for overall excellence in Redbook
Redbook
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's "America's Best High Schools" project, by tracking
Tracking (education)
Tracking is separating pupils by academic ability into groups for all subjects or certain classes and curriculum within a school. It may be referred as streaming or phasing in certain schools. In a tracking system, the entire school population is assigned to classes according to whether the...

 difficult students to off campus "alternative schools." The Language Arts Department has been named a "Center for Excellence" by the National Council of Teachers of English
National Council of Teachers of English
The National Council of Teachers of English is an American professional organization dedicated to "improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education...

 in recognition of the writing program. The Community Involvement program is one of six in the nation honored by the IBM Corporation and U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
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. Newsweek
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ranked the school #1109 in their "List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America."

Hopkins High School participates in the Advanced Placement Program
Advanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...

. In 2005, 494 students took 751 AP exams, with 77% scoring 3 or higher. Students mean SAT
SAT
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 score of 1170 is well above national average, as is the mean ACT
ACT (examination)
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 score of 23.9. Six teachers are consultants for the College Board and lead workshops and grade national exams.

Since 1998, the school has had 84 National Merit Semifinalists and 141 Commended Scholars.

Hopkins is also home to KHOP-TV which produces both weekly shows and cable programming, and a school dance program called the Royelles, and a Hip-Hop team named Deeply Royal.

Athletics

Hopkins High School is a member of the Lake athletic conference in the Minnesota State High School League
Minnesota State High School League
The Minnesota State High School League is a voluntary, non-profit association for the support and governance of interscholastic activities at high schools in Minnesota, United States. The association supports interscholastic athletics and fine arts programs for member schools...

. The school has produced several state championships and Division I prospects. In 2006, the boys and girls basketball teams won state championships. This was the first time in MN Division 4A Basketball that both teams from the same school won. In 2005, the school gained national recognition when Blake Hoffarber
Blake Hoffarber
Blake Hoffarber is a Senior shooting guard on the University of Minnesota men's basketball team. The 6'4", 200 lbs Hoffarber is a Minnetonka, Minnesota native who gained fame by way of numerous highlight reel shots during the course of his basketball career...

, a student, hit a game-tying two-point shot, just after tripping and falling to the floor, at the end of overtime during the state championship game. For that shot, he was awarded an ESPY
Espy
-People:* Cecil Espy , American baseball player* Duane Espy, American baseball figure* James Pollard Espy , American meteorologist.* Mike Espy , American politician* William Gray Espy , American actor...

 Play of the Year Award and an appearance on The Today Show as well as guest-appearance invitations to The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show
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. The 2009 Royals Basketball team won the Class 4A state title that year with a record of 31-0. The team boasted four Division I signees: Royce White (Iowa State University
Iowa State University
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), Trent Lockett (Arizona State
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

), Mike Broghammer (Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

) and Raymond Cowels (Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

). In 2011, both the boys and girls basketball teams won state championships. This marks just the fourth time in Minnesota high school history that both a boys and girls team from the same school won state basketball championships in the same year. Hopkins is now responsible for two of those four years winning both titles in 2006, and now in 2011. For the boys, the following four players were named to the all tournament team; Joe Coleman, Marvin Singleton, Zach Stahl, and Siyani Chambers.

Rivalry

The Royals have a huge rivalry with the Minnetonka Skippers from Minnetonka High School
Minnetonka High School
Minnetonka High School is a public comprehensive high school that is located in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a western suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul. With almost 3,000 students, it is the 3rd largest high school in Minnesota behind neighboring Wayzata and Eden Prarie high schools...


State championships

State Championships
Season Sport Fall  Cross Country, Boys 4 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
Cross Country, Girls 3 1983, 2001, 2002
Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 and Diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

, Girls
2 1978, 1979, 2007 individual
Soccer, Boys 1 1983
Winter Basketball
Basketball
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, Boys
7 1952, 1953, 2002, 2005, 2006 , 2009 , 2010, 2011
Basketball, Girls 3 2004, 2006, 2011
Dance Team, Girls 3 1997, 1999, 2001
Skiing
Nordic skiing
Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....

, Nordic Boys
8 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2007
Nordic Skiing, Girls 4 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003
Swimming and Diving, Boys 7 1966, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 2007 individual
Spring Golf
Golf
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, Boys
1 1944
Track & Field, Girls 1 2010 2011
Total 49

  1. - from 1933 to 1994 an over-all team champion was calculated with a point system involving the scores achieved by schools results in all three events - Cross Country, Slalom, and Ski Jumping. In each event, the school with the two best scores was declared the team champion in that event

Notable alumni

  • Andrew Dawson - Grammy Award winning music producer and engineer
  • Miriam Johnson - Co-Host of Hometime on PBS.
  • Nadine Strossen
    Nadine Strossen
    Nadine Strossen was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from February 1991 to October 2008. She was the first woman and the youngest person to ever lead the ACLU. A professor at New York Law School, Professor Strossen sits on the Council on Foreign Relations...

     - President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991–2008). Hopkins debater.
  • P.O.S - rapper/musician and member of the Doomtree collective
  • Mike Mictlan
    Doomtree
    Doomtree is a hip hop collective based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of Doomtree bring various bases of knowledge and musical backgrounds together to create alternative-influenced rap and hip-hop music. Nearly as prominent as the influence of hip-hop in their music is that of punk, and their...

     - rapper/musician and member of the Doomtree collective
  • Lazerbeak
    Doomtree
    Doomtree is a hip hop collective based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of Doomtree bring various bases of knowledge and musical backgrounds together to create alternative-influenced rap and hip-hop music. Nearly as prominent as the influence of hip-hop in their music is that of punk, and their...

     - producer/musician and member of the Doomtree collective
  • Cecil Otter
    Doomtree
    Doomtree is a hip hop collective based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of Doomtree bring various bases of knowledge and musical backgrounds together to create alternative-influenced rap and hip-hop music. Nearly as prominent as the influence of hip-hop in their music is that of punk, and their...

     - rapper/musician and member of the Doomtree collective
  • Paper Tiger
    Doomtree
    Doomtree is a hip hop collective based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of Doomtree bring various bases of knowledge and musical backgrounds together to create alternative-influenced rap and hip-hop music. Nearly as prominent as the influence of hip-hop in their music is that of punk, and their...

     - producer/musician and member of the Doomtree collective
  • Andrew Sims
    Doomtree
    Doomtree is a hip hop collective based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of Doomtree bring various bases of knowledge and musical backgrounds together to create alternative-influenced rap and hip-hop music. Nearly as prominent as the influence of hip-hop in their music is that of punk, and their...

     - rapper/musician and member of the Doomtree collective
  • Aaron Brown
    Aaron Brown
    Aaron Brown is an American broadcast journalist most recognized for his coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks, his first day on air at CNN...

     - former CNN
    CNN
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     Anchor
  • Joan Guetschow
    Joan Guetschow
    Joan Guetschow is an Olympic biathlete . She competed at the Olympic Games in 1992 in Albertville and 1994 in Lillehammer, representing the United States. She also competed for her country in the World Championships in Borovetz in 1993. She has also been talented in other sports...

     - Olympic athlete (1985 graduate)
  • Kris Humphries
    Kris Humphries
    Kris Nathan Humphries is an American professional basketball player who last played for the NBA's New Jersey Nets. He became an unrestricted free agent in 2011.-Early life:...

     - Basketball player, Utah Jazz
    Utah Jazz
    The Utah Jazz is a professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are currently a part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...

     forward (2004–2005), Toronto Raptors
    Toronto Raptors
    The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's re-expansion...

     (2006–2009), Dallas Mavericks
    Dallas Mavericks
    The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...

     (2009), New Jersey Nets
    New Jersey Nets
    The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

     (2010-Present)
  • Blake Hoffarber
    Blake Hoffarber
    Blake Hoffarber is a Senior shooting guard on the University of Minnesota men's basketball team. The 6'4", 200 lbs Hoffarber is a Minnetonka, Minnesota native who gained fame by way of numerous highlight reel shots during the course of his basketball career...

     - Basketball player, Winner of the 2005 "Play of the Year" ESPY
  • Royce White - Basketball Player, Minnesota Gophers (Suspended) Iowa State Cyclones
    Iowa State Cyclones
    The Iowa State Cyclones are the athletic teams of Iowa State University. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference and competes in NCAA Division I, fielding 16 varsity teams in 12 sports.*Men's sports...

     (Current)
  • Daniel Coleman - Basketball player, AD Vagos (Portugal, 2008–2009), Bourg (France, 2009–2010)
  • Nate Berkus
    Nate Berkus
    Nathan Jay "Nate" Berkus is an American interior designer and daytime television host. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and has been a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, offering design advice to viewers. May 25, 2010, was his last day on The Oprah Winfrey Show...

     - Renowned interior designer
  • Jim Korn
    Jim Korn
    James Allen Korn , is a former professional ice hockey defenceman. He moved to Hopkins, Minnesota at the age of 6 months with his family. He grew up there and attended Hopkins High School. He was drafted in the fifth round, 73rd overall, by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft...

     - NHL player (1980–1990)
  • Dave Snuggerud
    Dave Snuggerud
    David W. Snuggerud is a retired American professional ice hockey right wing. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1987 NHL Supplemental Draft out of the University of Minnesota....

     - NHL Player (1987–1990)
  • Jeffrey Lee Parson - Apprehended by FBI for creating MSBlast. B computer virus in 2003
  • Michael Lehan
    Michael Lehan
    Michael Lehan is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft...

     - Football Player, Cleveland Browns
    Cleveland Browns
    The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

     cornerback (2003–2005), Miami Dolphins
    Miami Dolphins
    The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

     (2006–present)
  • Gary Anderson
    Gary Anderson
    Gary Allan Anderson is a former National Football League placekicker. He was the first NFL kicker to have a "perfect regular season," successfully making every field goal and every PAT during regular season play.-Early life:...

    - Not the one who kicked field goals for the Vikings.
  • Alla Ilushka
    Alla Ilushka
    Alla Igorevna Ilushka is a beauty queen from Eden Prairie, Minnesota who competed for in the Miss USA pageant in 2007 and who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant....

     - Miss Minnesota Teen USA 2002, Miss Minnesota USA
  • Samantha Harris - Model/Actress, Co-host of Dancing with the Stars
    Dancing with the Stars
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  • LeRoy Gardner III
    LeRoy Gardner III
    LeRoy Gardner III was an American amateur wrestler.-Biography:Gardner was the first NCAA Heavyweight National Champion in history for Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa in 2003 This individual contribution helped Wartburg College win the 2003 NCAA Wrestling Team Championship, including NCAA records...

     - National Champion Wrestler, (2001 and 2003)
  • Matt Grimm - Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
    Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
    Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band of St. Paul, Minnesota is a Grade 4 bagpipe band based in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area of Minnesota. The band has performed with Green Day and Blink-182. The band primarily plays celtic music with an Irish emphasis. In 2007 the band became a 501c3 non-profit....

     drummer.
  • Todd Sklar - Filmmaker, Box Elder
    Box Elder (film)
    Box Elder is an American independent film. It was written and directed by Todd Sklar, his first feature film. The film stars Alex Rennie, Nick Renkoski, Chad Haas, as well as Sklar.- Plot synopsis :...

    .
  • Garrott Kuzzy
    Garrott Kuzzy
    Garrott Kuzzy is an American cross country skier who has competed since 2001. His best individual World Cup finish was ninth in an individual sprint event in Canada in 2008....

     - 2010 Olympic Cross Country Skier.
  • Pat Marcy - Nation Champion Wrestler, Olympian
  • Trent Lockett - Basketball Player, Arizona State Sun Devils
  • Austin McDowell - Founder and current CEO of The College Daily LLC
  • Kelsey Soby - Former News Reporter at WDAY, now Traffic Reporter at KMSP-TV
    KMSP-TV
    KMSP-TV, channel 9, is the Fox-owned-and-operated television station serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota designated market area, owned in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WFTC...

  • Kristian Mundahl - Senior Podcaster at the University of Missouri student newspaper, The Maneater
    The Maneater
    The Maneater student newspaper is the official, but independent, student-run newspaper of the University of Missouri. The Maneater editorial and advertising staffs are composed entirely of students with the exception of a professional business adviser and a receptionist. The newspaper has no...

  • Nell Urban - Was in the same grade as Kristian Mundahl, had a few classes with him
  • Sonja Peterson - Nell Urban's roommate and cat enthusiast
  • Rick Lindquist
    Rick Lindquist
    Rick Lindquist is an American mixed media artist. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up mainly in the southwest suburb of Hopkins, where he graduated from Hopkins High School in 1997. He attended the University of Minnesota from 1997-1999, and later enrolled and attended the College...

  • Hopkins Public Schools
    Hopkins Public Schools
    Hopkins School District 270 is a public school district in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The district is one of the larger districts in the state, and covers all of Hopkins, Minnesota as well as parts of Minnetonka, Golden Valley, Eden Prairie, Edina, Plymouth, and St. Louis Park. The district is...

  • Minnetonka, Minnesota
    Minnetonka, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 51,301 people, 21,393 households, and 14,097 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,893.0 persons per square mile . There were 22,228 housing units at an average density of 818.9 per square mile...

  • Hopkins, Minnesota
    Hopkins, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 17,145 people, 8,224 households, and 3,741 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,205.9 people per square mile . There were 8,390 housing units at an average density of 2,058.2 pe square mile...


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