Cannon Falls Area Schools is a public school district located in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. The district was founded in 1893. It includes Cannon Falls High School, Cannon Falls Middle School, and Cannon Falls Elementary School.
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Cannon Falls High School
The site of both the high school and middle school. Enrollment in grades 10-12 is 342 students as of 2007. The principal is Tim Hodges, and the Superintendent is Beth Giese. The school has recently been built onto, and now includes a field house, an auditorium, and generally made to be new and improved.
Athletics
The Cannon Falls Bomber Girls have enjoyed a fair amount of success in the early 2000's. The Bomber's first state championship came in 2005 with a Class A Dance Team State championship, which was repeated in 2006 and now a 3-peat State Championship performance with a third straight State Title captured in 2007. The Bomber Dance Team captured the runner-up title in 2004, 2008, and 2010, along with two more Class A State Championships in 2009 and 2011. The Dance Team also placed 3rd in Jazz in 2009 and 4th in Jazz in 2011. Also in 2006, The Cannon Falls Girls' Basketball team captured their first state title (Class AA), behind Senior Cory Montgomery's tournament MVP performance. 4 of the 5 starters for the Bombers were named to the all-tournament team. The girls' basketball team has been among the top teams in the conference consistently in the past few years, capturing the overall HVL conference championship in 2008. The girls' track and cross country teams have seen a number of athletes advance to the state tournament. In 2002 and 2003 the Girls' Golf team saw their girls advance to the state tournament both years, placing 7th in 2002 and in 2003 they saw their Senior led golf team shoot to a 4th-place finish.
On the boys' side, only moderate success has been enjoyed. No team state championships, but sprinter Jered Chambers took home an individual state championship with a Class A state 100 m Dash championship in 2002 with a time of 11.32 seconds. The baseball team has been the most consistent, bringing home a majority of the HVL Blue Conference championships in the 80s, 90s, and into the 2000s. Section championship games have not been an uncommon occurrence for the Bombers, however their last state appearance in baseball was 2012. They ended up 6th in state. In 2001-2006 the football team saw a little bit of a revival since the mid-90s. Ranked in the top 10 consistently, with a highest ever ranking coming in at #2 in the state poll during the 2002 season. The conference championships have somehow eluded the team though, with only two in school history, those coming in 1996 and 2002, both teams had a record of 7-1 in the regular season and were perfect going into the final game of the regular season before losing their final game of the year. In 2005 the Bombers also finished the regular season 7-1, only to fall in the second round of the section tournament to Glencoe-Silver Lake. The school's only football state appearance came in 1996. Most recently the football team finished with a 5-4 record. The boys' basketball team has endured a few ups and downs in recent history, winning their first HVL Championship in many years in 2009. The wrestling team has consistently been at the top of the conference with a handful of wrestlers, which includes; Micah Floeen, Seth Flodeen, Levi Price, Jared Erlanson, Spencer Flodeen, and Stephen Johnson, Robert Otterness, and Brock Gobin. all advancing to the state tournament in recent years. The Bombers have also had three individual state champion wrestlers in Chad Otterness, Levi Price, Wade Gobin (2008).
Lastly, the Cannon Falls speech team is constantly improving. They have enjoyed many championships in many categories. However, each year, the senior group leaves and the entire team gathers to bid them farewell.
The drama department does a tradition similar to this. Most of the plays the drama department does is put on a cheap budget.
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Cannon Falls Elementary School
Grades K-5 have an enrollment total of 607 students. While the High School has the name Bombers as their mascot, the elementary school has adopted the name Trailblazers. After Bombers was deemed too violent by the school, an elementary-wide contest was held to come up with a new name for the school's mascot; Trailblazers was the winning name. The school is named after the Cannon Valley Trail, which starts in Cannon Falls, and continues on to Red Wing.