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About Us: Spring Lake Park School District 16
Spring Lake Park School District 16 serves Spring Lake Park, Blaine, and Fridley with three K-3 elementary schools, a grades 4-5 intermediate school, a 6-8 middle school, a four-year high school, a Learning Alternatives area learning center, online distance learning academy, and Lighthouse Program for the highly able student.
With 4,600 students, District 16 is personal is size, extra-large in opportunity. The same is true about the school community.
For enrollment information, visit the enrollment section of our website or call the District Services Center.
District Services Center
763-785-5570 1415 81 st Avenue NE Spring Lake Park, MN 55432 Hours : 7:30 am - 4:30 pm Our supportive community approved a February 2006 bond referendum which will provide extensive, exciting, even dramatic improvements to all of our schools. All schools are being renovated and improved, and receive additional classrooms. Northpoint Elementary, our new K-3 elementary school in Blaine, opened in the fall of 2008. Our three K-3 schools are either new (Northpoint) or totally renovated (Park Terrace and Woodcrest). Westwood Intermediate School and Westwood Middle School will have their improvments completed by the end of February 2009. Spring Lake Park High School will be "nearly-new" by the fall of 2009 after receiving its improvements over the course of three summers and one school year. Continual updates will keep everyone posted on the plans, progress, and timelines of the projects that are part of the district's facilities improvement plan.
The high school has a seven-period day. Opportunities in Emergency Health Care students are 17-time world champions. In a national ranking, Physics students had the highest average of any AP class three of the past four years. The math team recently placed 7th in the state and a state tournament entrant 12 years in a row. The number of Advanced Placement opportunities are among the state’s highest. Six were honored in the most recent National Merit Scholarship program.
The middle school offers accelerated mathematics, differentiated English and science, state-of-the-art industrial technology labs, performing arts, band, and family and consumer sciences. Students scored higher than the mean of students from 41 countries in the Third International Mathematics & Science Study. Middle school academic teams were first in the state, 6th in the nation, in a math competition. They were first in the state in the Minnesota Quiz Bowl.
Elementary reading is literature-based and writing is integrated into all subject areas. Language arts skills include reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Basic skills are incorporated into activities that challenge thinking and offer curricular stimulation appropriate to needs, abilities, and interests. Both science and math use a "hands-on" approach. An elementary academic team was first in the nation in the 2003 National Geography Olympiad. They were also first in the state, 8th in the nation, in Knowledge Bowl competition.
Three coordinators direct the K-12 gifted and talented program. Students participate in accelerated or enriched courses, advanced placement courses, independent study, mentorships, and college and university option courses.
The Community Education department offers comprehensive school and community programming for all ages.
The school community is vibrant, yet retains a small-town feel. It is home to the National Sports Center, Minnesota Medical Enterprise Park, Medtronic, Onan, Unity Hospital, Anoka County Human Services Center, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Northtown Regional Shopping Center, USA Cup (the largest youth soccer tournament in the world), the 3M Championship on the senior golf tour, and the PGA world-class TPC of the Twin Cities golf course.
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