Osseo Junior High School

Osseo Junior High School is a public junior high school located in Osseo, Minnesota, at 10223 93rd Avenue North. The junior high school was annexed from Maple Grove to Osseo shortly after its construction, which is why the school has a Maple Grove address even though it is in the city of Osseo. The athletic field east of the school is still in Maple Grove. The current principal is Michael Thomas and the current assistant principal is Dianne Thomas.
School Overview
Osseo Junior High is part of the Osseo Area School District 279 and is one of four junior high schools in the District. It has student population of 1255. The junior high school was separated from Osseo High School in 1961 and was located the East Wing of the high school building. The Junior High was located there from 1961-66. In 1966, Osseo Junior High School was established in its own new building west of the high school. The building won an award as the outstanding new school in Minnesota of 1966. The building received additions in 1969 (a swimming pool) and 2005 (a classroom wing to the south). At one time, the school was home to the only instructional television station in Minnesota. The schools in the district each had a directional microwave tower that pointed to Osseo Junior High School and could receive programming from the school's television studio and control room. By the late 1970s, this system was obsolete, and the district distributed programming on video tapes.
In May 2011, Osseo Junior High School's administrative assistant Mr. John Daugherty was arrested and charged with second degree possession of a controlled substance. He was allegedly caught trying to sell cocaine.
Academic Assessment
The school was ranked 57th out of 229 public middle school in Minnesota. Osseo Junior High School and Maple Grove Junior High School (which was ranked 39th out 229) were the only Osseo Area School District 279 junior high schools to make the top 100 middle schools in the state. The school did not make the AYP for the 2005-2006 school year. The school is 80% white, 10% black, 5% Asian, and 1% Native American, and 4% other.

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