Spring Lake Park Schools

Who We Are

High expectations.
High achievement for all.
No excuses.

Welcome to Spring Lake Park Schools! We are a vibrant school community serving about 6,200 students from suburbs in the northern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.

Innovative and Personalized Learning

Each student in Spring Lake Park Schools is known by name, strength, interest and need, leading to personalized student work and learning experiences.

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STEM and Real-World Learning

We continue to expand our science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning and redesign traditional learning experiences to help our students become creators, designers, inventors, thinkers and leaders.

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Career and College Readiness and 12x12

Our goal for each student is simple – 12 college-level credits by the end of 12th grade, or 12x12. We offer a variety of ways for students to achieve this goal and leave high school with college credits.

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Innovation and Design

Unleashing teacher creativity using our 3D Design process creates learning experiences that are meaningful, engaging and enhance student success.

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Outstanding Financial Management

The district is well-positioned for the future as a result of strong fiscal management from the school board and district administration.

Low Class Sizes

Our class sizes at all grade levels are among the lowest in the metro area and neighboring districts. We prioritize investing in teaching and specialist positions to maintain low class sizes.

Core Values

Each day we live our core values as we work with our learners and each other to advance a plan focused on success for each student.

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News
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SLP Schools Online Expands to Grades K-12

Spring Lake Park Schools is expanding its online school to all grades, K-12, for the 2021-2022 school year. For 13 years, Spring Lake Park High School students have had the option to learn full-time online. A year of learning through the pandemic has created an interest in the next phase of our district’s approach to online learning – an expansion of our online school to all grade levels, K-12, for the 2021-2022 school year.

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Free Meal Services Update

The week of March 8-12 is the final week for free meal distribution to the current eight community sites. Starting Tuesday, March 23, free meal pick-up will be available at Spring Lake Park High School on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-10 a.m. Centerview Elementary is being added as a second meal pick-up location. Stay tuned for more information on dates and times.

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Responding to current events

Recent mass shootings and the imminent trial of Derek Chauvin are the latest current events to bring forward a range of emotions and responses in our community. At Spring Lake Park Schools, support for students is guided by our vision to value, inspire and create a sense of belonging for each student.

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Senior Madi Ngene playing basketball, lacrosse and soccer

Madi Ngene named 2021 Athena Award Winner

Spring Lake Park High School is proud to announce senior Madi Ngene as their winner for the 2021 Athena Award for her excellence in athletics as well as in school and community achievements.

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All grade levels return to learning at school

As students return from spring break Tuesday, March 23, all grade levels will be learning at school five days per week. Students in grade 7-12 attending in the Modified Campus (hybrid) model will be the last group to transition to learning at school each day as the third trimester begins.

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Videos

Why I’m #SLPPantherProud

Hear from our staff, students and community about the amazing things that are happening in Spring Lake Park Schools every day.

Park Terrace teacher Justine Hryhorysak laughing with a student

Justine Hryhorysak (opens in new window/tab)

Teacher, Park Terrace

In order to personalize learning, you really have to think about what this child need and every child needs love and compassion and encouragement. I let them know that it's totally okay to do whatever they need to do to continue to move forward because you can't stop until you're proud.

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STEM teacher, Westwood

Spring Lake Park is known for its innovation and student centered focus. I want to challenge my students to look outside the box and rely on their own skills, imagination and problem solving skills to create solutions to the problems set before them.

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Teacher, SLPHS

I love having students who maybe thought they would never go to college. Guess what, you're a junior in high school and you have already completed college coursework and sometimes for them, that's a real eye-opener and they realize maybe I should start looking into some opportunities for my future that I never thought that I would do.

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SLPHS Class of 2020

SLP has given me many opportunities to explore the things that I wanted to learn more about as well as has provided a caring and progressive environment for me to learn in.

Riley Kunz

Student, Lighthouse

I was really burnt out at traditional school and nothing interested me, but at Lighthouse I'm allowed to look into things that make me passionate and it brought back my interest in learning things.