EXCELSIOR — Quinn Hughes and Tyler Clair, who are both seventh-graders at Minnetonka Middle School West, care a lot about the environment.
The Lake Minnetonka area welcomed back thousands of students on Tuesday, Sept. 3. Here's a look at the school districts, by the numbers.
Holy Family Catholic High School in Victoria received the largest single gift to its annual fund in the school’s 20-year history.
PLYMOUTH — Wayzata Public School District’s North Woods Elementary School is almost ready for the school year.
PLYMOUTH — More than a year after the Wayzata School Board made the decision to make changes to school boundaries, residents who live in Plymouth, Medina and Maple Grove, the communities affected by the redistricting, are preparing for a new school year.
MINNETONKA — Madison LaRoche, 2019 Minnetonka High School graduate, was honored this week by the Lake Minnetonka Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which awarded her a $500 scholarship, according to an Aug. 19 news release.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison met with residents concerned about racist incidents in Eastern Carver County Schools on Tuesday evening.
HOPKINS — Hopkins Public Schools is bringing in a new face to Eisenhower Elementary and XinXing Academy this fall — Melissa Ness will take over as principal of the joint schools.
MINNETONKA — The Minnetonka Rotary Foundation spent $30,000 supporting several organizations and students this year, according to a news release from the rotary.
MINNETONKA — Minnetonka High School is taking it back to the 1970s in August with the class of 1979’s 40th reunion.
MINNETONKA — A Minnetonka High School student took third place in the 2019 National Speech and Debate tournament in Dallas, Texas, on July 10, a news release from the National Speech and Debate Association says.
The largest LGBTQ civil rights group in Minnesota, OutFront Minnesota, announced Monday they have hired Kelly Holstine, the 2018 Minnesota Teacher of the Year from Shakopee, to expand OutFront’s educational program for schools.
PLYMOUTH — A group of local middle school students learned what it takes to run a restaurant all while raising money for a good cause.
PLYMOUTH — Wayzata High School’s former student council adviser Sue Iverson won a prestigious national award.
HOPKINS — Maria and Ryan Keller just collected their 3 millionth book through their nonprofit Read Indeed.
WAYZATA — Lake Minnetonka area schools celebrated the class of 2019 with graduation ceremonies held over the past few weeks.
MOUND — Setting an example for her fellow students, second-grader Kaia Kallestad shows everyone in her life kindness, particularly her classmates.
MINNETONKA — Minnetonka senior Astrid Liden loves the library.
MINNETRISTA — The Westonka District 277 Foundation awarded $110,000 in scholarships to Mound Westonka graduates this spring.
ORONO — The Orono School District is planting seeds of education with their new Earth Club, which is planting apple trees with help from the Hennepin County Health Tree Canopy Grant.
In the coming weeks, high school students will be handed their diplomas from schools across the state of Minnesota. And if the graduating class of 2019 is anything like the class of 2018, there will be disparities between racial and ethnic groups.
WAYZATA — The Wayzata High School class of 2019 will walk across the stage of the Mariucci Arena at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 31.
Ridgeview is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of a $2,000 Health Care Scholarship. Scholarships were awarded to the following high school students who are pursuing a health-care related degree or career: Jessica Breuggemeier, Belle Plaine; Audrey Steinhagen Central, Norwood Young Amer…
MINNETONKA — An Auschwitz survivor and his daughter spoke May 15 at Minnetonka High School, and said it is more important than ever to share stories from the Holocaust, in light of recent acts of anti-Semitism and prejudice.
WAYZATA — Wayzata High School students, along with their peers from across the state, were recently honored as Scholars of Distinction by the Minnesota Department of Education.
People across the country — and right here in the southwest metro — are pooling together funds to pay off school lunch debt.
ORONO — Orono High School is partnering with the Jake Anderson Legacy Fund to host the sixth annual Jake Annual Leadership Symposium on May 22.
DEEPHAVEN — St. Therese Catholic School in Deephaven has been selected by Catholic Schools Center of Excellence as one of 18 Catholic elementary schools that will participate in a literacy partnership with Groves Academy, the school said in a May 6 news release.
WAYZATA — Wayzata native and Bradley University senior Daniel Lensing was recognized with First-Team Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athletes honorable mention recognition, according to a May 7 news release.
MINNETONKA — “Bubble butt” is a hard phrase to take seriously, but one senior from Minnetonka High School is trying to fix a very serious problem attached to the phrase.
PLYMOUTH — A junior at Wayzata High School has won the Norman Borlaug Science Achievement Award.
WAYZATA — The transition to high school is difficult for a lot of young students, and mental health is one of the many challenges that students face as they navigate high school.
ORONO — Several area high schools have been named among the top 10 high schools in Minnesota, according to recently released rankings by U.S. News and World Report.
The fifth annual Donut Dash 5K and Mini-Donut Dash to raise money for Eagle Ridge Academy is coming up later this month.
PLYMOUTH — Five Wayzata High School students spent their Monday, April 29, in New York City working through real-world math problems as finalists in the MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge.
WAYZATA — Wayzata native Nicholas Broberg claimed the national championship as part of North Dakota State University’s National Agri-Marketing Association marketing team.
WAYZATA — More than 200 teachers and staff from Wayzata High School spent Friday, April 12, participating in a business immersion program.
MINNETONKA — Minnetonka Public Schools has announced the winners of the Excellence Award.
HAMEL — Steve Bisecki admitted he wasn’t sure what he was getting into when he was greeted by some youngsters in highly-decorative attire as he entered Peg’s Countryside Café last week.
PLYMOUTH — A Wayzata Public Schools principal is being recognized by the Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association (MESPA) for her leadership.
PLYMOUTH — A Wayzata High School senior has received a Mining for Excellence scholarship from PolyMet.
Participants in this Friday’s Cool Schools Polar Plunge may only now be gearing up for the shock of cold water, but Sarah Heiberg, James Robbins, Kaiti Leonard and Darian Mehra have been preparing since August.
PLYMOUTH — One Lake Minnetonka-area teacher has been named a semifinalist for Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
EXCELSIOR — Members of the Excelsior Rotary Club sorted through and packaged up several hundred books for the Reach Out and Read Minnesota program.
MINNETONKA — Eagle Ridge Academy in Minnetonka will start offering two new computer science classes thanks to a partnership with Amazon.
MINNETRISTA — Westonka Public School students will have classes on May 10.
PLYMOUTH — Wayzata High School’s student council adviser has been selected as Minnesota’s candidate for the Warren E. Shull Award.
ST. PAUL — Wayzata Central Middle School’s Team 1 won the championship of the Minnesota Regional Science Bowl for Middle School Students on Saturday, Feb. 9.
MINNETONKA — Minnetonka High School’s production of “Pygmalion” won at the state’s One Act competition on Friday, Feb. 8.
WAYZATA — Schools in the area are announcing they will start two hours late on Friday, Feb. 8.
