St. Croix Lutheran High School
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St. Croix Lutheran High School is a private school in West St. Paul, Minnesota. The secondary school has about four hundred young men and women in ninth through twelfth grade. Most of St. Croix’s students live in the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area and travel to and from school each day. However, about one hundred students stay in an on-campus residence in the back of the high school, so students from all over America and all over the world go to school at St. Croix. St. Croix has had students from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and a variety of American states from Florida to Colorado.
Most students at St. Croix participate in a sport or activity. The school offers twenty sports where students compete against other schools in the Tri-Metro Conference. Students also participate in other activities like drama, journalism, debate, music ensembles and speech. Instructors encourage leadership through organizations like National Honor Society, Right Triangle - a peer helper and chemical awareness group - and Student Council.
St. Croix is a school with one of the lowest private high school tuitions in the state of Minnesota. Teachers work with students in classes that prepare students for college and include the required courses of English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Religion, Science, Physical Education and Health. A variety of elective courses encourage student's special interests and prepares them to attend colleges like Cornell University, Notre Dame, UCLA, University of Minnesota, Penn State University, Macalaster College, West Point Academy, Marquette University and Martin Luther College.