| Grand Rapids High School | |
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| Location | |
| Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public Secondary |
| Principal | Jim Smokrovich |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 978 |
| School Color(s) | Orange and Black |
| Mascot | Thunderhawk |
| radio | "Thunderhawk Talk" |
| Website | grthunderhawks.com |
Grand Rapids High School is a four year public high school located in Grand Rapids, Minnesota on 800 Conifer Drive. GRHS offers a wide range of extra curricular activities, and boasts one of the only competitive field show marching band programs north of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.
GRHS' Student Council and the school facility served as the host of the 2010 Minnesota Student Council State Convention in April. The Theme was "Survivor Northwoods: Leadership By Nature"
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Grand Rapids High School, "GRHS", is one of the two high schools in Independent School District 318. The school was founded in 1895. The school was the first in Northern Minnesota to offer courses in the International Baccalaureate program, and currently offers the University Of Minnesota's College in the Schools Program, and Project Lead the Way, a project in conjunction with the Itasca Community College. GRHS's school song is the "Rapids Rouser".
GRHS is one of few schools that have two homecomings, the traditional Fall Homecoming for American football and a winter homecoming for ice hockey. The school also has a "Spring Fling" which is essentially a homecoming week without the royalty. All three events are usually a week long with each day boasting a different dress-up day, often centered around a theme, with Friday being Orange & Black Day, the school colors. Friday is also commonly a shortened class schedule with a pep fest in the afternoon.
GRHS boasts one of the best technical education centers in Minnesota. It is equipped with everything from a high quality computer lab for CAD to a CNC plasma cutter, CNC Router, CNC Lathe, and 3D Printer for creating computer designed parts. GRHS also consistently places in many engineering design competitions such as the Shell Eco-marathon.
All of the schools athletics are under the direction of activities director Pat Rendle. Wayne Pender, former athletics director retired in the summer of 2008.[1]