Highland Park Senior High School

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Highland Park Senior High School is a public secondary school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States serving grades 9 through 12. It is located in the Highland Park neighborhood.The school offers the International Baccalaureate program. It is a national Blue Ribbon School. Newsweek ranked the school #973 in their "2005 List of the 1200 Top High Schools in America."AcademicsThe school has received grants from the Bush Foundation and Gates Foundation to develop the Small Learning Communities model. Motivated students in all three Communities may take International Baccalaureate courses.LanguagesHighland Park offers a number of foreign languages, including: Spanish, including the secondary component of Saint Paul Public Schools' Spanish immersion program. French Mandarin Chinese Formerly American Sign Language; ASL was offered in the connecting Highland Park Junior High School, however the language does not continue into the high school, and the immersion program for deaf students was removed in 2008.