History
The current building that houses Anoka High School opened in 1971. The first Anoka High School was opened in 1904 and located in downtown Anoka. The second Anoka High School was opened in 1955, a few blocks southeast of downtown Anoka, with the old location becoming Sandburg Middle School (until its closure in 2010). After the current building opened in 1971, the old high school became Fred Moore Junior High School (later Fred Moore Middle School for the Arts and currently Anoka Middle School for the Arts). Despite the move, the Anoka Tornadoes Football Team continues to play its home games at Goodrich field, which is just north of Anoka Middle School. The current building is on 7th Ave
Anoka High School draws enrollment from Anoka as well as the neighboring towns of Andover, Burns Township, Oak Grove Township, Ramsey, and parts of Coon Rapids. From the forming of the Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 in 1952, until the opening of Coon Rapids High School in 1963, all district students attended High School in Anoka. Although the current Anoka High School continues to be one of the largest four-year secondary schools in the state, prior to the opening of Champlin Park High School in 1992, and the subtraction of Anoka's enrollment from Champlin, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, and Dayton, Anoka was the largest high school in the state, despite only being 10th through 12th grades, and graduated as many as 844 seniors (in 1988).
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