Princeton High School (Minnesota)
| Princeton High School | |
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| Address | |
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807 Eighth Avenue South , 55371 United States | |
| Coordinates | 45°33′36″N 93°35′08″W / 45.5601°N 93.5856°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public High School |
| School district | Princeton Independent School District 477 |
| Principal | Barbara Muckenhirn |
| Faculty | 52.51 (on an FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 974[1] (2022-2023) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.55[1] |
| Campus type | Suburb |
| Color(s) | Orange and Black |
| Mascot | Royal Tiger |
| Website | Princeton Independent School District |
Princeton High School is a public secondary school located on 807 Eighth Avenue South in Princeton Minnesota, United States. The school is part of the Princeton Independent School District 477.
Academics
[edit]Princeton High School operates on an 7:50 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. schedule, which includes six class periods and a sixty-minute lunch/advisory period. Students may not leave campus during this time due to the school's closed campus policy (with the exception of being taken to lunch by a parent or guardian).[2]
"Coke Geysers" world record attempt
[edit]The Princeton High School Student Council organized a community effort to break the world record for simultaneously erupting coke geysers on May 27, 2011. The current record - 2,854 bottles - was set in October 2010 in the Philippines.[3] Hundreds of students participated with a goal of setting off a series of 3,000 geysers,[4] a figure they exceeded with 3,051 total simultaneous eruptions. However, Guinness Book of World Record personnel did not officiate the event and never made the record official.[5] Students say the idea grew from a plan for a graduation prank into a way to put their small town on the map.[4] A video[6] of the attempt was broadcast on Minnesota NBC News affiliate Kare 11 and edited by a YouTube user named Physics314Nerd.
Notable alumni
[edit]- Jerome P. Peterson (1954), former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
- Charles R. Davis (1963), former member of the Minnesota Senate
- Paul Sather (1990), college basketball coach[7]
- Clay Matvick (1991), sportscaster[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Princeton High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
- ^ "Princeton High School Code of Conduct" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ "Most Mentos and soda fountains". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ a b "Students go for world record with Mentos, Diet Coke". KTHV Television. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ "3,051 bottles erupt in record attempt". Princeton Union-Eagle. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ "Diet Coke and Mentos World Record!!! - YouTube". YouTube.
- ^ "PHS alum gets Division I head coaching job at North Dakota". hometownsource.com. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ "PHS grad makes it big as broadcaster for ESPN". hometownsource.com. 24 June 2021.
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