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Welcome to Gordon Parks High School
Welcome to Gordon Parks High School. We are proud to be the Saint Paul Public School’s alternative high school. Our staff and students work hard to live and achieve within the legacy of Gordon Parks himself.
 
St. Paul native Gordon Parks’ life and work as a photographer, film-maker, writer, and civil rights activist provides us with a model for the kind of thoughtful, active, and successful citizens we are dedicated to helping our students become.
 
We offer flexible morning and afternoon programs, media-infused courses and curriculum, a supportive advisory program to help keep our students on track for graduation, and a host of community partnerships, internships, and job support activities for our students. We are a small, orderly, and friendly school where it is impossible for students to be invisible or to get lost in the shuffle.
 
Gordon Parks staff are specialists in providing students with hope and possibility through a vigorous curriculum. Students can fulfill state and district graduation standards requirements in many ways—from studying Documentary Film and nonfiction writing with our English department, to hands-on applied experiences in Algebra and Chemistry and community-based art, social studies, and environmental studies programs. Just to name a few!
 
At Gordon Parks, students are expected to practice thinking in real ways as a part of their daily experience school experience. We expect them to be full participants in their own educations and to take themselves and their possibilities seriously. The bottom line is that effort makes the difference. As the great American poet Maya Angelou writes, “Nothing works unless you work.”
 
At Gordon Parks we work together to make it work for our students.

Construction on the light rail began on University
Avenue in front of Gordon Parks High School. 
These photos illustrate the progress between
February 21 and April 19, 2012.  Check back for
more construction photos.

 

 
Summer Opportunities for Students K-12
The City of St. Paul and Sprockets has launched a “do the summer countdown” campaign encouraging students to engage in summer learning opportunities.  For more information, go to http://www.spps.org/family_resource_fairs