Arlington Senior High School was a public high school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was located north of Downtown Saint Paul on Rice Street, west of Interstate 35E in the city's North End neighborhood. The school enrolled 875 students in grades 9-12 and had the capacity to enroll 2,000. Arlington opened on September 3, 1996 as the newest high school for the Saint Paul Public School district. The school was the first high school to be built since Humboldt Senior High School in 1976. The school was closed after the 2010-2011 school year.
Arlington was the only high school in Saint Paul with no attendance boundaries and enrolled students from throughout the city. The school has the percentage of poverty and ethnic minorities in the district. Starting in the 2009-2009 school year, the school's main educational focus will be a program dubbed "Bio-SMART". The program will emphasize bioscience and the use of technology in health care. The school offered several Advanced Placement classes as well as several College in the Schools classes, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota.
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