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Chaska Senior High School

545 Pioneer Trail, Chaska, MN, 55318-1499 -

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Definition of Terms

Chaska Senior High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 10 - 12

County

Carver County, MN

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1880 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

100 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 10 - 642 students

Grade 11 - 611 students

Grade 12 - 627 students

This School

( MN ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:19

1:17

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( MN ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	3%
% Asian	4%	5%
% Hispanic	4%	7%
% Black	2%	11%
% White	90%	73%

Additional Student Information

This School

( MN ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

26%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( MN ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Chaska School District

This School's Agency

( MN ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	13	2
Number of Students Managed	8,524 students	559 students
District Total Revenue	$89,243,000	$5,409,000
District Expenditure	$117,399,000	$5,362,000
District Revenue / Student	$10,470	$11,540
District Expenditure / Student	$13,773	$10,367
District Graduation Rates	95%	97%

Chaska High School (CHS) is a public high school located in Chaska, Minnesota, a southwestern suburb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. CHS is a 10th - 12 grade school; freshmen attend the nearby Pioneer Ridge Freshman Center.
Its mascot is the Hawk, and the colors are purple, white, and gold.
History: Chaska High School first opened in the early 1900s with its first graduating class in 1906. Over the course of time Chaska High School has moved to newer facilities three times. Currently, Chaska High School resides in a facility that opened in 1997.
The Mission: "All Youth ready for post-secondary education, careers, and active civic participation" The core principles of the school are: Personalized Learning Environments.
Academic Engagement of All Students.
Accountable Leadership.
Empowered Educators.
Engaged Community and Youth.
Integrated System of High Standards, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessments, and Supports.
" In Accordance with Our Mission and Philosophy, the Goals of Chaska High School are: To foster self-awareness, self-worth, and responsibility.
To provide opportunities for development of social, ethical, emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and physical elements that shape the total person.
To design learning experiences that accommodate physical and intellectual differences, allowing development of each individual to fullest potential.
To establish a system whereby each staff member and student regularly evaluate the educational program and individual performance.
To maintain a diverse, comprehensive curriculum which meets the needs of a changing society.
To facilitate open communication and cooperation among all participants in the educational process.
To promote-flexibility, personal tolerance, and ability to cope with change.
To develop competence in the three C's (creativity, communication and computing).
To stimulate growth in the life skills of problem solving.
Current Facilities: Chaska's Current facilities feature auditorium, several gymnasiums, a cafeteria, tech-ed labs, computer labs, a media center, a stadium, and several athletic fields.
Houses: Chaska High School is organized into four main houses: East Union House, Victoria House, Chanhassen House, Carver House.
Each has an individual title based upon a city within the district; Purple is the East Union House, Blue is the Victoria House, Red is the Chanhassen House, and Green is the Carver House. Each house has two stories and similar design. They are connected by one large hallway. This main hallway is a little less than one quarter mile long. Then there's the South Wing of the high school just south of the main hallway which holds the cafeteria and leads to the activities section of the school.
Media Center: The Chaska High School media center is the school's library and technology center. It has four separate labs; two of which use Dell Optiplex PCs and two which use Apple computers. The first floor consists of the library proper, as well as all PCs. Second floor houses the Aplle computer labs, as well as Jumpstart studios, the biweekly school news program. The media center area also holds the copy room, tech support and all other IT services for the school.
The South Wing: This takes up about half the school's area. It consists of the band room, choir room, cafeteria, the auditorium, the large gymnasium, the two small gymnasiums, two regular sized gymnasiums, two weight rooms, a few classrooms, the activities office, athletic locker rooms, gym locker rooms, and other athletic related areas. It is connected through the blue house and the media center. The cafeteria is one story with a high cone glass roof, but the athletic area is two stories.
Curriculum: Chaska High School employs 'block scheduling,' a method that allows for four classes per day of 90 minutes per block.
Chaska High School offers many tracks and plans for students of each and every learning situation. Post Secondary Education Option, Advance Placement (AP) courses, Mankato State English, Spanish, and Psychology 101, English As A Second Language, Special Education, and of course the basic core and advanced/honors classes.
Activities: Chaska High School has many extracurricular activities such as: Academic Teams, Art Club, Athletics, DECA, Drama, FFA, General Assembly, Honors Society, International Club, Intramurals, Jumpstart, Key Club, Music, POWZA, Prom Committee, Speech, Student Council, Yearbook, MSHSL, Ping Pong Club, and others.
Drama: From longtime director Mr. Jim Lund, every year the CHS Drama Department stages a fall musical, a spring play, and a collection of student-directed one act plays in the winter.
Music: Chaska High School students have many opportunities to be in music. Three choirs, three bands, and many extracurricular groups offer a wide range of music styles and levels. There are three in-school choirs: Varsity Choir, Treble Choir and Concert Choir, and three in-school bands: Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble.
There are two extracurricular choral groups that meet outside of the school day. Bel Canto is an audition-only group for girls grades 10-12, and Chamber Singers is an audition-only group of mixed men and women grades 11 and 12. Students also have the ability to try out for a yearly musical.
The band offers a somewhat more diversified range of extracurriculars. There are three high school level jazz bands: Jazz I, Jazz II, and Jazz III. Jazz I is an audition-only group for 9-12, while Jazz II is open to grades 10-12, and Jazz III open to 9th graders. The Chaska High School Pep band plays at the schools hockey, basketball and volleyball games throughout the school year. There is also availability for students to be in the pit orchestra for the drama department's musicals. The school, and district, is home also to a newly formed orchestral program, which ranges across many grades.
Academic teams: Chaska High School is active participates in several academic leagues, including Quiz Bowl, Knowledge Bowl, Science Bowl, Math League, and the American Mathematics Contest. In 2005-2006 school year, Chaska Knowledge Bowl placed 2nd in the state competition. Also, Chaska Quiz Bowl, being led by captain Rob Carson with teammates Andrew Guyton, Andrew Hart and Jon Martin, placed 2nd in the national competition.
Sports: Chaska High School is part of the Lake Conference in the Minnesota State High School League.
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About This Zip Code (55318)

School Zip (55318)

(MN) State Average

Population (Approximate)

19,232 people

4,662,816 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

41%

25%

Population Average Age

33 years old

35.4 years old

Average Household size

2.8 persons

2.5 persons

Median Household Income

$61,214

$49,155

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

6.4 rooms

5.7 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

26 years old

43 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

77% / 23%

71% / 29%

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