Mounds Park Academy

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Mounds Park Academy
Location
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Information
Enrollment

~700
Type Private (Independent)
Athletics conference Tri Metro Conference
Mascot Panthers
Color(s) Blue and White
Established 1982
Homepage www.moundsparkacademy.org

Mounds Park Academy is an American independent preparatory pre-K-12 school in Saint Paul, Minnesota with about 700 students who currently attend.

After years of research, hard work and a commitment to providing a college preparatory curriculum focused on educating the whole child, founders Bob Kreischer and Sandy Kreischer Smith witnessed their dream become a reality as the doors of Mounds Park Academy opened for the first time in the fall of 1982.

With a group of parents, administrators, and teachers, slightly over 100 students hit the ground running that fall. Soon sports teams and extracurricular clubs were formed, friendships were cultivated, and students became active participants in classrooms.

The reputation of this school quickly spread and the student body steadily grew year after year. Four years later, MPA quadrupled its enrollment and celebrated its first graduating class of nine students! Today MPA has approximately 675 students in Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade, and graduates as many as 70 students each year who then move on to well-respected colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Not only has the student body grown, but the campus facilities as well. To accommodate the fine arts curriculum which includes choirs, orchestras, bands, drama and a strong visual arts program, an auditorium, small theatre, art gallery and choir room were constructed after the school was founded.

More recently, MPA expanded its facilities with the addition of a four-court sports center, over a dozen new Upper School classrooms and science labs, and a student commons. Improvements also included a new Pre-Kindergarten, and many new throughout the 32-acre campus. This major renovation not only allowed for a wonderful new green space for student, but helped MPA classrooms, leading to more defined "homes" for each division within the school building.

[edit] Competitive Activities

Mounds Park Academy is known to have a great Tennis team and Minnesota High School Speech team. Their athletics teams compete in the Tri-Metro Conference

Other school related activities include -


State Championships
Boys' Tennis 2005 2006
Boys' Golf 2006
Equestrian Club 2006
Classic Debate 2007
Girls' Tennis 2008


[edit] Trivia

  • The school colors are white and blue.
  • Their mascot is a panther.
  • School Song Lyrics:

Our voices raised within these walls
Are loyal, brave and true.
We stand together strong a proud,
Our flag is white and blue. Rah! Rah!

The spirit that we share withal
Will never cease to be
And mem'ries cherished will not fade
Mounds Park Academy. M-P-A!

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