Patrick Henry High School (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
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Patrick Henry High School, locally known as Minneapolis Henry, is a Minneapolis public high school located in the Camden area of North Minneapolis with over 1000 students. Since the late 1990s, its address has been 4320 Newton Avenue North.
Like all Minneapolis high schools, Henry is composed of several "small learning communities" or SLCs. Henry's premier program is its International Baccalaureate program, which draws from parts of North, Northeast, Southeast, and some of South Minneapolis. The Class of 2007 featured twenty IB Diploma candidates.[1] Henry also has an open magnet program, an engineering program, and a commercial & fine arts program.
For many years, Henry struggled with low enrollment and poor academic quality. Since the 1990s, however, the school has benefited from the introduction of the IB program, corporate grants, a mentorship program for new teachers, and the strong leadership of former principals Cheryl Creecy, Michael Huerth (a recipient of the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Award), and Paul McMahan. The current principal is Gary Kociemba.
Henry's most notable sports team in recent years has been its boys' basketball team, which won four straight state championships in the AAA division under coach Larry McKenzie from 2000 to 2003. The team had some success before then as well, reaching the state final in 1998, and often defeating its rival North High School, led at the time by Khalid El-Amin. The basketball team previously won state championships in 1944 and 1945. The alpine skiing team won the state championship in 1941, and the boys' track and field team won the state championship in the AA division in 1990, led by "Leapin'" Leonard Jones.
Beyond the sports, Henry has a vast array of other extracurriculars, the most notable being its math team. Henry has the largest math team in the city. Coach Ryan Voeks has managed to recruit a considerable amount every year.
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