Eagle Ridge Academy

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Location
Eagle Ridge Academy
7255 Flying Cloud Drive Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55435 USA
Coordinates	44°52′23″N 93°24′43″W / 44.873, -93.412
Information
School board	Eagle Ridge Academy Board of Directors
Authority	Friends of Ascension^[1]
Director	Judi Ingison^[2]
Enrollment	206^[2] (2006-07)
Faculty	11.0 (on FTE basis)^[3]
Student:teacher ratio	14.2^[3]
Type	Charter school
Grades	6 to 12
Mascot	Huskies^[4]
Color(s)	Maroon and Gray^[4]
Established	2004^[1]
Homepage	www.eagleridgeacademy.org

Eagle Ridge Academy is a charter school located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

1 Background
2 Extracurricular activities
- 2.1 School Musicals
3 Athletics
- 3.1 Track and Field Team
- 3.2 Basketball
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Background

Eagle Ridge Academy was established in 2004.^[1]

Eagle Ridge features a classical curriculum and courses that an average high school would not have, such as Rhetoric, Logic, and Humanities. Rhetoric is the art of persuasion which was employed by the Ancient Greeks. Logic is the art of reasoning employed by classical philosophers. Humanities is the study and discussion of classical literature.

[edit] Extracurricular activities

[edit] School Musicals

The first production put on by Eagle Ridge Academy was "The Hope Diamond". A play written by a mother of one of the students and directed by the student herself. It was put on in 2005, the first year of the school's existence.

The first musical that Eagle Ridge Academy put on was "Into the Woods".

[edit] Athletics

Eagle Ridge Academy and the International School of Minnesota, both small schools which are near each other, field joint sports teams. The team name is the Huskies.^[4]