Blooming Prairie High School is a Public school located in

Blooming Prairie, Minnesota Blooming Prairie is a city in Dodge and Steele counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 1,996 at the 2010 census. Most of the city is located within Steele County; only a small part of the city extends into Dodge County. His ...

. The high school teaches students in grades 7-12, and has a student body of approximately 350, with a student-teacher ratio of 12:1.

School system

The Blooming Prairie Public School System consists of Blooming Prairie Elementary School and Blooming Prairie High School. The school district consists of a combined student body of approximately 950, with a student-teacher ratio of 14:1. The Minnesota state average is a 16:1.

Athletics

The High School has a comprehensive, year-round, gender-balanced sports program. This includes

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volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

, cheerleading, and cross-country in the Fall;

wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

and both boys' and girls'

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in the Winter; and

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

(for girls),

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(for boys), boys' and girls'

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

, and boys' and girls'

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teams in the Spring.RS School Today website Blooming Prairie High School Athletics department web page
. Use drop down boxes to access individual sports. Accessed March 24, 2011. The Blooming Prairie football team was the 2010 conference champion. They also were State champs in 2019.

School spirit

Blooming Prairie High showed its school spirit in March 2011 when it showed support for Jordan Ressler, a junior who died in a motor vehicle accident in November 2010, by displaying the

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logo in a human form and by wearing the distinctive orange clothing of the team he loved.See, ''e.g.'': Amanda Lillie, "Showing support for Jordan Ressler," March 7, 2011, ''Austin (Minnesota) Daily Herald''; found a
Austin Daily Herald website
AP, "Minnesota town remembers teen with Texas logo", March 7, 2011; found a
Associated Press on WBKT-TV website
Caitlin Perrone, "Human UT logo honors deceased longhorn fan: Community members from Minnesota gathered Sunday to honor an avid UT fan that passed away in November by creating a human UT logo in the snow." ''The Horn'', March 9, 2011 and updated March 14, 2011; found a
Read the Horn website
. "Remembering Jordan Ressler," March 6, 2011; found a
KAAL-TV website
All accessed March 24, 2011.

References

External links

Blooming Prairie High School

Blooming Prairie High School football
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