Anoka High School

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Anoka High School
Address
3939 Seventh Avenue North Anoka , Minnesota 55303 United States
Coordinates	45°13′27″N 93°23′01″W / 45.2242239°N 93.3834886°W / 45.2242239; -93.3834886
Information
Type	Public
Established	1880
School district	Anoka-Hennepin School District 11
Principal	Mike Farley
Teaching staff	126.49 (FTE)[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	2,322 (2022–23)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	18.36[1]
Color(s)	Maroon & White
Athletics conference	Northwest Suburban Conference
Nickname	Tornadoes
Website	School website
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Anoka High School is a four-year public high school located in Anoka, Minnesota, United States. It serves grades 9–12 for the Anoka-Hennepin School District 11.

The first Anoka High School was opened in 1904. The second Anoka High School was opened in 1955, a few blocks southeast of downtown Anoka, with the old location becoming Sandburg Middle School. The current building opened in 1971, and the old high school became Fred Moore Junior High School (later Fred Moore Middle School, and now Anoka Middle School for The Arts). Anoka High School is one of the oldest and one of the largest high schools in the state of Minnesota.^{[citation needed]} From the forming of the Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 in 1920, until the opening of Coon Rapids High School in 1963, all district students attended High School in Anoka.^{[citation needed]}

Anoka competes in the Northwest Suburban Conference in the Minnesota State High School League. The school mascot is the Tornadoes.^[3]

• Michele Bachmann - Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Gretchen Carlson - Fox News anchor and Miss America^[4]
• Margaret Chutich - Minnesota Supreme Court judge
• Jake Deitchler - Olympic wrestler^[5]
• Bobby Fenwick - Major League Baseball infielder
• Anna Arnold Hedgeman - African-American civil rights leader, politician, educator, and writer^[6]
• Koryne Horbal - Former chairwoman of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party and American Representative to multiple councils at the United Nations^[7]
• Garrison Keillor - author, host of the radio program "A Prairie Home Companion"^[8]
• Ben Nelson - Wide Receiver
• Steve Nelson - NFL Linebacker
• Mark Nenow - Distance runner
• Brandon Paulson - Olympic wrestler^[9]
• Briana Scurry - Courier Six^[10]
• Abigail Whelan - Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
• Justin Wood - Author and Activist, Founding Member of Back to Zero

• Anoka High School Homepage