With 2,804 students, Eden Prairie High School is the third largest high school in Minnesota by enrollment in 2017-18. In the 2010-11 school year, 79% of students were White, 9% were African American, 8% were Asian, and 4% were Hispanic. In 2016-2017 school year, 67% of students were white, 11% were African American, 7% were Hispanic, 12% were Asian, and 3% were of 2 or more races.
Academics
The high school offers over 425 courses, many of which are electives. Offered language courses include Spanish, French, Sign Language, German and Chinese. Class size ranges from 2934 students.
Facilities
The school is divided into four wings on three floors. The North Wing is home to the Auditorium, Performing Arts Center, the Main Gym, small gym, machine shops, music classrooms and EagleVision Television Studios. The South wing contains the Old Commons lunch room, Science classrooms and labs, Foreign Language classrooms, a Photography lab, and Special Services facilities. In the East Wing of Eden Prairie High School is the New or East Commons lunch room, Math classrooms, Social Studies classrooms, and English classrooms. Lastly, the West Wing is home of the Business classrooms, Technology classrooms and labs, Health classrooms and the Economic classrooms. Also, each department has a resource center near the specific classrooms so that students can work in close proximity to their teachers when necessary.
Student activities
Student activities include fine arts; academic teams such as Quiz Bowl, Knowledge Bowl, and Future Problem Solvers; Team 2502, a robotics team; a variety of clubs, including the Eyrie newspaper and the eagLIT literary magazine; and both varsity and intramural sports. Eden Prairie high school boasts a wide variety of extracurricular activities which include: Band, Ceramics Sculpture, Chess Team, Chorus, Computer Arts, Dance, Drawing Painting, Orchestra, Math Team, Photography, Theater Drama, Bible Study, and Video Film Production.
Athletics
Eden Prairie High School is a member of the Lake Conference in the Minnesota State High School League. In 2006, the football team was ranked by MaxPreps as the No. 11 team in the nation following a win in the 2006 State Championship. In 2007, Sports Illustrated named Eden Prairie the top high school athletic program in Minnesota. The high school was also recognized by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top Ten Athletic Programs in 2008–09. In the 2001–02 school year, Eden Prairie's athletic budget was $1,460,433, the highest per capita of any high school in Minnesota. Eden Prairie is also the only high school in Minnesota to send a team to the UDA National Dance Team Championship, where they have claimed 7 national titles..
The 1999 state championship was a tie between Eden Prairie High School and Edina High School
The Minnesota State High School League's first lacrosse tournaments for boys and girls were held in 2007. Prior to that year lacrosse was a U.S. Lacrosse Association Certified Club Sport.
