Blaine High School is a

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Blaine, Minnesota Blaine is a suburban city in Anoka and Ramsey counties in the State of Minnesota, United States. Once a rural town, Blaine's population has increased significantly in the last 60 years. For several years, Blaine led the Twin Cities metro region i ...

as part of the

Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 The Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 is a school district in Minnesota, northwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The district serves 13 communities: All of Anoka, Champlin and Coon Rapids, and parts of Andover, Blaine, Brooklyn Center, Broo ...

. The school was opened in 1972, as part of the Blaine Project.

Demographics

As of the 2016-17 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,972 students and 132.25 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 22.47:1. There were 533 students (17.9% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 253 (8.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Blaine High School

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. Accessed March 1, 2020

Academics

Blaine High School participates in the

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program.

Athletics

Blaine High School won the

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class AA championship in 2000, led by future

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players

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and

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. The school has produced three Mr. Hockey Award winners: Current NHL players

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in 2010 and Riley Tufte in 2016, as well as Bryce Brodzinski, who won the award in 2019 and was selected 196th overall in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft by the

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. The football team has appeared in the state tournament 14 times, most notably in 2008 where the team defeated heavily favored

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, which was ranked third nationally among all high schools, en route to an appearance in the state championship game. Blaine has only won one state football championship however, which came in

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. The Girls Nordic Skiing Team won the 1979 state championship. The nickname for the school's athletic teams is the Bengals; colors are Navy Blue, Columbia Blue and White.

Notable alumni

– 2010 Mr. Hockey winner. Professional

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player for the

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. *

– Former professional ice hockey player in the

and

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. *

Jonny Brodzinski Jonathan Brodzinski (born June 19, 1993) is an American professional ice hockey player for the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Brodzinski wa ...

– Professional ice hockey player for the

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. * Trevor Frischmon – Former professional ice hockey player in the NHL. *

– Former professional ice hockey player for 15 years in the NHL. *

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– actor * Dan Johnson – Former

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. *

Patrick O'Bryant Patrick Fitzgerald O'Bryant (born June 20, 1986) is an American-Central African former professional basketball player. The , center was selected out of Bradley University by the Golden State Warriors with the 9th overall pick in the 2006 NBA dra ...

– Professional

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player. Selected 9th overall in 2006 NBA Draft by the

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. * Riley Tufte – 2016 Mr. Hockey winner. Professional ice hockey player for the

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. * Isabelle Stadden – Swimmer. Earned a pair of top-5 finishes at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, 2021. Gold medalist in the women's 4x100 meter medley relay even and silver medalist in the women's 200 meter backstroke at the 2019 Pan American Games. Currently swimming for the University of California, Berkeley.

References

External links

* {{authority control Public high schools in Minnesota Educational institutions established in 1972 Schools in Anoka County, Minnesota 1972 establishments in Minnesota Blaine, Minnesota