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A forerunner in public education

One of the greatest assets of the Hopkins area is its school district, which serves Hopkins and all or part of six additional suburban communities west of Minneapolis. Around 8,000 students are enrolled in the district, which includes five elementary schools, two junior high schools, and one high school.

Artwork from first graders at Meadowbrook Elementary School, one of five elementary schools in the Hopkins School District.

Hopkins High School was the first high school in Minnesota to receive the National School of Excellence Award. That prestigious award was also given to the two junior high schools, which were the first middle-level schools in the Twin Cities area to receive that honor. Gatewood Elementary School was named a National School of Excellence in 2001.

Hopkins High School was one of 62 high schools nationwide honored for overall excellence in Redbook magazine's America's Best High Schools project.

Gatewood Elementary School was named one of eight Minnesota Schools of Excellence by the Minnesota Elementary School Principal's Association.

Alice Smith Elementary School, Eisenhower Elementary School, Gatewood Elementary School, Katherine Curren Elementary School, and the Harley Hopkins Family Center are International Peace Sites.

The School District also has five community centers, where it offers early childhood development classes and many programs for people of all ages.

> Visit the Hopkins School District website

Think Hopkins is a joint marketing project sponsored by the City of Hopkins and the Hopkins Business & Civic Association.