Park Center Senior High School
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| Park Center Senior High School | |
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7300 Brooklyn Boulevard , 55443 United States | |
| Coordinates | 45°5′17″N 93°20′38″W / 45.08806°N 93.34389°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Once a Pirate, Always a Pirate |
| Established | 1971 |
| Principal | Antwan Harris |
| Teaching staff | 130.49 (FTE)[1] |
| Enrollment | 2,061 (2024-2025)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 15.79[1] |
| Colors | Green Gold |
| Team name | Pirates |
| Website | pcsh |
Park Center Senior High School (PCSH) is a four-year public high school located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, on 7300 Brooklyn Blvd. PCSH is located near the border of two northwest twin cities suburbs, Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center, thus the school name "Park Center" is a combination of these city names. The principal is Antwan Harris. Park Center Senior High's mascot is a pirate and the school's sports teams are known as the Pirates. The school's colors are green and gold. From their website, "As an International Baccalaureate (IB) school, Park Center Senior High infuses core curriculum with a world focus that helps young people understand their role as responsible world citizens."
Park Center Senior High School is one of three public high schools in the Osseo Area School District 279 and one of two public high schools located in the city of Brooklyn Park. (Brooklyn Park is served by 3 school districts: Osseo Area School District 279, Anoka-Hennepin School District 11, Robbinsdale Area Schools). In August 2007 Park Center became an official International Baccalaureate (IB) School. It is currently offering the Middle Years Programme (MYP) to ninth and tenth grade students. The first IB students graduated in 2009. Park Center is a magnet school open to any student in the Northwest Suburban Integration School District (NWSISD.) Park Center is one of only 20 public schools in Minnesota that are authorized to offer the Diploma Programme. In addition to International Baccalaureate classes, Park Center also offers college-level Advanced Placement classes.
The NWSISD is a consortium of seven districts in the northwest suburban area of Minneapolis which has been formed to promote integration and eliminate racial isolation of students in these districts. By creating magnet schools in IB, math & science, and in the arts the NWSISD has begun to bring students of diverse backgrounds together in programs based on academic excellence.[2]
PCSH students come from about 20 different countries and speak roughly 35 different languages. Demographic information lists the student population as 36.0% Black, 31.5% Asian, 9.9% White, 16.2% Hispanic, and 1.3% are American Indian as of data from the Minnesota Department of Education in February 2024. The student population has 1,991 total students.[3]
Departments: Arts, Business Education, Career and Technology Education, Cooperative Education, EL Department, Family & Consumer Science, Individuals & Societies(Social Studies), Language and Literature (English), Language Acquisition(Spanish, French, Hmong), Mathematics, Music, Physical and Health Education, Sciences, Social Work, Special Education.
Athletics and activities
Baseball
Park Centers baseball program is formed to make the PCM Pirates. They are merged with Colombia Heights, and Maranatha. As of 2026, their head coach is Bernard Brinkley
Hockey
The Pirates girls' hockey team won the 2000 MSHSL state championship.[6] The boys and girls programs are merged with Osseo Senior High School to form Osseo-Park Center hockey (OPC)
Theatre program
Each Spring, Park Center students perform a musical in the auditorium. Recent showings include Big Fish in 2020, Urinetown in 2021, All Shook Up in 2022, SpongeBob SquarePants (musical) in 2023, and Les Miserables in 2024. Students in the program are participants across many focuses including acting, technical crew, and pit orchestra.
Park Center also performs a yearly fall play.
