Mayo High School
| Mayo High School | |
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 Mayo High School main entrance | |
| Address | |
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1420 11th Avenue Southeast 55904 United States | |
| Coordinates | 44°0′10″N 92°26′51″W / 44.00278°N 92.44750°W |
| 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 | 97.51 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,739 (2018–19)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 17.83[1] |
| Color(s) | 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 in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. It is named after the brothers William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of the Mayo 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.
History
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Mayo High School was built in 1966 in the southeastern section of
Statistics
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]
Curricular and extra curricular
The school
Sports
Mayo High School participates in many sports, competing in the Big 9 conference within the
The boys tennis team won a state championship in 2007 and 2011.[5][6]
Mayo High School acquired the removable NFL football turf from the Minnesota Vikings after the demolition of the Metrodome in 2014.
Notable alumni
- Barbara Cegavske - Secretary of State of Nevada (2015-2023)
- Jim Johannson - ice hockey player, coach and USA Hockey executive[7][8]
- John Johannson - professional ice hockey player[9]
- Mark Mattson - neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health and Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine [10]
- Gordon Moore (judge) - Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[11]
- MLB player[12]
- Aaron Senne - minor League baseball player
- Coco and Kelly Miller- WNBA players
- Eric Strobel - member of Miracle on Ice, gold medalist at the 1980 Winter Olympics in hockey[13]
- Yung Gravy - rapper[14]
References
- ^ a b c "MAYO SENIOR HIGH". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
- ^ "Mayo Senior High School". GreatSchools.org. GreatSchools.org. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Explore Mayo Senior High School in Rochester, MN". GreatSchools.org. GreatSchools.org. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ "Mayo Senior High School". publicschoolreview.com. Public School Review 244 5th Avenue, # J-229 New York, NY 10001. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ HighBeam
- ^ Ruff. "Rochester tennis tops in the state". Post-Bulletin. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ "1982 NHL Entry Draft: Jim Johannson". Hockey Draft Central. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
- ^ Weiner, Jay (February 6, 1992). "Games bring joy to Johannson". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. p. 1C.
; Weiner, Jay (February 6, 1992). "Johannson (Continued from page 1C)". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. p. 9C.
- ^ "1981 NHL Entry Draft – John Johannson". Hockey Draft Central. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
- ^ "The Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience".
- ^ "Gov. Walz makes Worthington judge his first Minnesota Supreme Court selection". Retrieved April 24, 2022.
- ^ Official Player Profile
- ^ David, Dan. "Eric Strobel". hockeydraftcentral.com. Dan David. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Mayo High grad riding the Gravy train to musical fame".
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