Greetings!

The School of Environmental Studies (SES) is an optional high school located in Apple Valley, Minnesota adjacent to the Minnesota Zoo. It is a choice for students in ISD 196 and allows open enrollment from the greater Twin Cities area.

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Address (see a map)
  12155 Johnny Cake Road
  Apple Valley, MN 55124

Many good things have been written about the school. Here's a very brief sampler:

Welcome to SES

Good to have you here! Browse the site, find the resources you need, contact us with questions. Visitors are always welcome to our unique and successful public high school. Our small personal setting encourages learning through conversation and knowledge created through experience and adventure. Join us.

Students attending COP 15 Conference

s With significant support from the SES Foundation, SES students will be attending the COP 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December as an accredited observer organization by the United Nations! The conference begins December 7 with the students attending pre-conference events beginning on the sixth and continuing through post-conference events on the twentieth.
  You can follow their work daily through the following sources:
  The COP15 conference is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and is the 15th meeting of the Committee of the Parties. Click to see the UN site for the conference.

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