OK but what is the number per class? Still over 1000 I'm guessing.
Scared of Shakopee?? I thought a lot of Shakopee was McMansion house farms.
About 700. Wayzata is the largest at about 800 per class.
IIRC, those numbers are based only on three grades, because some districts only have 10-12 in high school? That may no longer be true.
I don't believe it's a true 1-32 seeding. They seed 1-8 in there section and then play cross overs with another section.
I think all high schools are 9-12 now.
Yep. The only large suburban district I can think of that still uses the Junior High model (7-9) and then 10-12 for high school, is Hopkins. At least I think they do. Everyone else has gone to the middle school (6-8) and 9-12 high school setup.
Right, but if the MSHSL counts only the top three grades when doing school size ... those numbers make more sense to me.
It doesn't matter if they make sense to you. That's not how they do it. This from the MSHSL...
Things shift about every 20 years+/-. Blaine is out of control right now with houses going up everywhere. Centennial/Blaine/Spring Lake Park overlap in this area, but are all different districts. The newest Elementary that opened in Blaine (Anoka/Hennepin) was over capacity the day it opened.
OK, so this confirms those numbers you listed are not their actual enrollments.
Part of Savage (older, eastern part) is in Burnsville's school district. The newer part of Savage is in Prior Lake's district. Prior Lake does have a lot of open enrollment from Burnsville.
A huge chunk of Blaine is actually Spring Lake Park district, oddly enough.
Unfortunately not where all the new houses are being built.
In a wealthy district, like Wayzata, Edina Minnetonka and EP, they are probably very close. In a poorer district with more reduced lunch, the MSHSL number would be lower than actual. But you keep arguing. It's clear you have some irrational dislike of suburban schools.
The MSHSL has totally messed up football. Would be good to blow it up and start over
Prior lake high school has a savage mailing address
Which was really good until the MSHSL botched the schedule so nobody within the section played each other
Because if you redraw the lines and send Blaine kids to Andover, the Andover parents complain. As do the Blaine parents.
I understand that the parents are going to complain, but the district has to do what's best overall.
The district is run by elected people. They literally don’t do what’s best. They do what their constituents want
A lot of it had to do with teams not wanting to play the western mega schools. The Lake was down to Wayzata, Minnetonka, Hopkins, Edina and EP. They had a hard time getting out of conference games - especially EP (and some of that was a general dislike of Grant by other coaches). They literally had to go to Winnipeg to play one year.
Not sure it was the MSHSL. I think the schools and coaches pushed for more competitive balance in the regular season, so they created the Gold and Maroon divisions. It seems to have worked this year as more teams seemed to win games that hadn't in the past. That may help build success in some programs and in turn help football from losing more kids. Only 3 teams did not win a game and one was at in the Prep Bowl just two years ago (Champlin). Eagan won 3 games this year and had won 2 combined over the previous 5 years.
Correct. And then once they did it they shouldn’t build schedules to try to let some programs win at the expense of others. If 6a Is fair, their 8 game schedule should all be the 7 in section and one out of section. But they doctor the schedule so some teams can win. Meanwhile Lakeville north is probably the 11th best team in the state at 3-5
With the exception of Hopkins being in the Maroon, it looks like it's basically just an East (Maroon) and West (Gold) split.
Bad teams winning games while good teams have losing record doesn’t mean the system is working.
Nope. Maroon are bad teams and gold are good teams. Everyone knows it. Really speaks to what the MSHSL and coaches think of the east metro to put them all in the bad division
If anyone wants to see actual enrollments (and all kinds of other demographics) you can use this website (I pre-set it with EPHS as example, but you can search for whatever HS you want):