Mayo High School

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Field	Value
name	Mayo High School
image	MayoHighSchool.JPG
caption	Mayo High School main entrance
motto	"To be a Spartan is to be the very best that one can be"
established	1966
type	Coed Public High School
principal	Troy Prigge
enrollment	1,820 (20232024)
ratio	22.75
teaching_staff	79.99 (FTE)
grades	912
streetaddress	1420 11th Avenue Southeast
city	Rochester, Minnesota
zipcode	55904
country	United States
coordinates
colors	Green and gold
mascot	Sparty the Mayo Spartan
nickname	Spartans
yearbook	Odyssey
newspaper	Advocate
ceeb	242103
website
footnotes
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Mayo High School (Mayo) is a public high school in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. It is named after the brothers William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of the Mayo Clinic. It is a public school and part of the Rochester Independent School District #535. It is notable for being constructed in an almost perfect circle aside from a few appendages, and for housing the Rochester Planetarium. The current principal of Mayo High School is Troy Prigge.

History

Mayo High School was built in 1966 in the southeastern section of Rochester, Minnesota. It has a capacity to hold approximately 1800 students (although historically the student populations of both Mayo and John Marshall high schools have exceeded well over 2,000 students) and was the largest high school in the city until Century High School was built, and was named after the brothers William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, physicians and founders of Mayo Clinic.

Statistics

As of 2020, there are 1689 students attending Mayo High School. There are 92 teachers and a student to teacher ratio of 18:1. The boy to girl student ratio is 51:49.

Curricular and extra curricular

The school mascot is a Spartan warrior. The sports teams, students, and staff are known as the Mayo Spartans. The school colors are green and gold. It has teams in speech, chess, classic debate, theatre, mock trial, football, tennis, swimming, cross country, soccer, lacrosse, softball, baseball, rowing, basketball, golf, hockey, volleyball, track and field, Science Olympiad, FIRST Robotics Competition team, Math League, and Knowledge Bowl. Students may also letter in citywide athletics such as crew with the Rochester Rowing Club, figure-skating with the Rochester Figure Skating Club, Nordic skiing with the Rochester Nordic Ski Team, and mountain biking with the Rochester Mountain Bike Team.

Sports

Mayo High School participates in many sports, competing in the Big 9 conference within the Minnesota State High School League, usually at the largest class level. The sports available are boys baseball, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls hockey, girls cheerleading, boys football, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls golf, girls softball, boys and girls swimming, girls dance team, boys and girls track and field, boys and girls tennis, boys wrestling, and girls volleyball, and bowling.

The boys' tennis team won a state championship in 2007 and 2011.

The women’s tennis team won a state championship in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Mayo High School acquired the removable NFL football turf from the Minnesota Vikings after the demolition of the Metrodome in 2014.

Notable alumni

Barbara Cegavske - Secretary of State of Nevada (2015–2023)
Yung Gravy - rapper
William Greenleaf - professor of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine
Jim Johannson - ice hockey player, coach and USA Hockey executive
John Johannson - professional ice hockey player
Mark Mattson - neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health and professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Coco and Kelly Miller - WNBA players
Gordon Moore (judge) - Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Michael Restovich - MLB player
Aaron Senne - minor League baseball player
Eric Strobel - member of Miracle on Ice, gold medalist at the 1980 Winter Olympics in hockey

References

"MAYO SENIOR HIGH". National Center for Education Statistics.
"Mayo Senior High School". GreatSchools.org.
"Explore Mayo Senior High School in Rochester, MN". GreatSchools.org.
"Mayo Senior High School". Public School Review 244 5th Avenue, # J-229 New York, NY 10001.
"Boys Tennis State Tournament Team Champions – 1950-2025". Minnesota State High School League.
"Girls Tennis State Tournament Team Champions 1974-2024". Minnesota State High School League.
"2025 Girls Tennis: Rochester Mayo increases winning streak to 76, claims Class AAA championship". Minnesota State High School League.
"Mayo High grad riding the Gravy train to musical fame".
"William Greenleaf - Stanford Medicine".
"1982 NHL Entry Draft: Jim Johannson".
Weiner, Jay. (February 6, 1992). ["Games bring joy to Johannson"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90430769/johannson-1992/}}{{free access}}; {{cite news). [[Star Tribune]].
"1981 NHL Entry Draft – John Johannson".
"The Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience".
"Gov. Walz makes Worthington judge his first Minnesota Supreme Court selection".
[http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/team/player.jsp?player_id=282879 Official Player Profile]
"Eric Strobel". Dan David.

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