We’re personal
Each student at Mounds View High School has a Personalized Learning Plan.
At Mounds View, teachers and staff get to know each of their students personally. The school’s Dean Model prompts students to develop a supportive relationship with an adult who maintains contact with students and their families regularly to ensure a personalized comprehensive learning experience.
Personal Learning Plans
Every Mounds View student has a Personal Learning Plan (PLP) and access to personalized post-secondary planning tools. Deans work with students throughout their high school career to create unique goals by analyzing academic data and personal connections using online tools like Naviance. Teachers use students’ interests, prior course completion and achievement data to tailor their daily instructional approach, and students and parents can view progress and receive performance benchmark data throughout the year by logging into the online parent portal, ParentVUE.
A personalized educational program
Mounds View’s comprehensive curriculum includes more than 210 course offerings.
• A wide range of world language offerings.
• Award-winning music options.
• A variety of enriched and accelerated courses.
• Online and hybrid courses where the majority of the instruction is delivered online, supplemented by faceto-face instruction in an in-person seminar.
Instructional technology
Mounds View is committed to implementing technologies that best align with instructional needs.
• Wireless access points are available throughout the building, making the internet accessible in classrooms and all areas of the school.
• As part of the District’s technology vision, access to technology tools will continue to increase in classrooms. Each student receives their own Chromebook. This increased access to technology provides students with opportunities to extend their learning beyond the classroom walls and allows teachers to personalize instruction to meet the needs of all students.
• Programs and services will be in place at all schools to ensure that race, gender, class and disability will not predict students’ success.
• Students’ academic performance will not fall into patterns identifiable by factors such as race, ethnicity, English language proficiency, socio-economic status and disability.
• The school that a student attends will not be the predictor of their success in school.
In 2024, for the 12th consecutive year, Mounds View Public Schools was one of a handful of school districts in Minnesota to earn the Best Communities for Music Education designation.
Safe & supportive
92% of students feel encouraged and supported by their
teachers.
It’s for everyone
Every student has different academic and social needs. Mounds View realizes this and provides a variety of programs, courses and services tailored to all students.
• Advanced courses and more high performance programs.
• A full complement of special education and related services for students with educational disabilities.
• Services including Title I, English Language Learning, Indian Education, speech and language services, psychological services, occupational and physical therapy, school health services, social work services, chemical health services, emotional-behavioral disorder education, developmental adapted physical education and other state-mandated services.
Notifications
Ongoing communications about District and school news and events are delivered to parents and subscribers regularly via paperless e-newsletters. Emergency notifications can be delivered to all families in a matter of minutes in the event of a school closing or critical situation. The Mounds View Messaging system sends personalized voicemail and text messages to parents’ phones and email addresses simultaneously. Parents also have the option to add their students’ cell phone numbers to receive text message communications.
Nutrition services
Mounds View teaches healthy eating habits by introducing students to a wide variety of food choices. Students can enjoy breakfast and lunch daily at no cost thanks to the Minnesota Free School Meals Program. All menus meet nutrition requirements established by the USDA.
Student support and engagement
Mounds View Public Schools is committed to ensuring that our students are able to come to school feeling safe, healthy and ready to learn. Dedicated school staff, Districtlevel support and strong community partnerships allow us to remove barriers and set each of our students up for success, including:
• School health services staff who care for students with chronic health conditions or students who become ill or injured while with us.
• Cultural liaisons who help bridge communication and build supportive relationships with schools and families.
• Multi-language supports to help facilitate communication with our multilingual families.
• Mental health specialists and a chemical health and prevention specialist to help students and families access supports, find resources and increase mental health literacy and prosocial behaviors.
• Ralph Reeder Food Shelf provides food, basic needs and connections to other services for any school district family as well as any low-income, food-insecure neighbor requesting assistance.
Mounds View High School is regularly named one of U.S. News & World Report’s Best High Schools in Minnesota.
• Relationships with community partners like the Suburban Ramsey Family Collaborative and the Ramsey County Children’s Mental Health Collaborative that assist families with access to resources to help support basic needs such as housing, food, transportation, therapeutic services and more.
• A welcome center where new families can register and begin learning about what our schools have to offer and receive support through the enrollment process.
Connectedness
Feeling connected to school is a key to academic success.
Students who feel connected to their school do better in school and in life beyond our walls. That’s why Mounds View emphasizes student connectedness through a variety of efforts. Students who take advantage of these opportunities report an increased sense of connectedness to Mounds View.
Award-winning co-curricular programs
More than 90% of Mounds View students participate in a wide range of co-curricular and extracurricular activities ranging from National Honor Society and student council to football, music, speech and much more. Students involved in music, school publications, drama, athletics, academic problem-solving and other special activities compete in the Suburban East Conference and regularly advance to state, national and international levels of competition.
Online parent portal
Mounds View families are encouraged to play an active role in their student’s school experience. Families can stay connected to their student’s daily schedules, attendance records, assignments, lunch balances, test scores, grades, Personal Learning Plans and more using the Mounds View Public Schools online parent portal known as ParentVUE. The online portal, combined with open communication with school deans, teachers and staff, offers families real-time information about their student’s progress, goals and more.
Activities, athletics, clubs and groups offered at Mounds View include:
• Adaptive athletics
• ASL club
• Badminton
• Band ensembles
• Baseball
• Basketball*
• Best Buddies
• Black Student Union (BSU)
• Board gaming club
• Bowling
• Chess club
• Chinese culture club
• Choir ensembles
• Clay target club
• Cross Country*
• Dance team
• Debate
• DECA
• Diversity Council
• Drama
• Econ Club
• Educators Rising
• Environmental Action Club
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)
• Fencing club
• Football
• French club
• Golf*
• GSA
• Gymnastics
• H2O for life
• H.E.A.R.T. Club
• Hockey*
• HOSA club
• Lacrosse*
• Latin Association
• Letters of Love
• Math team
• Media club
• Mock trial
• Model United Nations
• Muslim Student Association
• Mustang Mentors
• National Honor Society (NHS)
• Newspaper class (MV Viewer)
• Orchestra ensembles
• Physics club
• Red Cross club
• Robotics
• Science Olympiad
• Senior Stable
• Shakespeare
• Ski & snowboarding
• Skiing (alpine & nordic)*
• Skills USA
• Soccer*
• Softball
• Soror club
• Sources of Strength
• Spanish club
• Speech
• Strength training
• Student council
• Students demand action
• Swim & dive*
• Table tennis club
• Tennis*
• Track & field*
• Ultimate Frisbee
• USA Biology Olympiad Club
• Volleyball*
• Wrestling
• Yearbook class (MV Vista)
• Youth in Government
* Designates activities that offer both a boys’ team and a girls’ team.
Post-secondary focus
College and career readiness
Mounds View Public Schools is the first school district in the state to offer a comprehensive Early College program allowing students the opportunity to earn a two-year associate degree for free. Mounds View partners with Anoka Ramsey Community College to offer the Early College program as one of many opportunities students can choose for a personalized focus on post-secondary success. Through the Early College program, 95% of students earn college credits, and 74% earn at least one semester of college credits.
Mounds View offers
• More Advanced Placement (AP) course offerings than most schools (30).
• College in the Schools (CIS) courses in partnership with the University of Minnesota, and career and technical education programs in partnership with the Northeast Metro 916 Career & Technical Center.
• College credit for full- or part-time college attendance under the Minnesota Post-Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program.
• A career and technical education program.
• Access to an online career planning system that helps students align their Personal Learning Plan goals with their post-secondary plans. Students and parents can track college applications from start to finish, learn about financial aid and scholarship opportunities, research colleges, prepare for standardized tests and more.
• An onsite Career & College Planning center, with dedicated staff helping students decide what’s next, whether it’s college, career and technical training or employment.
High achievement
ACT
All Mounds View High School students attain college and career readiness. Thanks to a grant from the Mounds View Schools Education Foundation, Mounds View Public Schools was the first school district in the state to ensure every high school junior had a free opportunity to take the ACT on-site during the school day. To date, an average of 99% of students participate in the exam, and District students continue to exceed the state and national test score average. The average ACT score for the class of 2024 was 22.2, compared to the state average of 20.7 and the national average of 19.4.
Pathways to Possibilities
AP Honor Roll School
Mounds View High School is regularly named a College Board AP Honor Roll school. The award recognizes schools that have done outstanding work to welcome more students into AP courses and support them on the path to college success. Research shows students who take AP courses and exams are more likely to attend college and graduate on time.
Mounds View offers students the opportunity to explore a variety of careers through specific coursework aligned to industry pathways. Exploration continues with exposure to industry experiences that allow students to follow their interests and prepare for further post-secondary study, training or work opportunities.
FAST FACTS
2024-25
• Each Mounds View student has a Personal Learning Plan. Deans work with students throughout their high school career to create unique goals for their time in school and beyond.
• The Career and College Center offers personalized post-secondary planning for college, career, technical training, employment and more.
• Mounds View’s comprehensive curriculum includes more than 200 course offerings, including world language offerings and a variety of enriched and accelerated courses.
• More than 90% of Mounds View students participate in a wide range of co-curricular and extracurricular activities ranging from National Honor Society and student council to football, music, speech and much more.
Mounds View Public Schools enrolls 80% of the students in our attendance area.
Enroll: Mounds View welcomes students in its attendance area, which includes parts of Arden Hills, North Oaks, Roseville, Shoreview and Vadnais Heights. To enroll, residents can call 651-621-7100.
Board-approved core class sizes: 34 students
Who we are:
Diversity of student population
n Native American .3%
n Two or more categories 6.2% n Black 6.6% n Hispanic 7.5% n Asian 12.1% n White 67.2%
Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch 16.2% Students receiving special services Special Education 8.8% English as a second language 3.4%
Mounds View High School values:
Health and well-being
Engagement
Relationships
Diversity and inclusion We are One Herd.
After English, the top three languages spoken by families:
1) Spanish
2) Chinese, Mandarin
3) Somali
Mounds View High School serves:
1,836 students in grades 9-12
Demographics and data were compiled in November 2024. January 2025
Mounds View
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Students at Mounds View: can choose to participate in a variety of extracurricular options, including band, orchestra, choir, athletics and drama.