 North Community High School , or simply Minneapolis North , is a public , four @-@ year high school located in Minneapolis , Minnesota . The school has existed for over 120 years in several buildings all located on the North Side of Minneapolis . North once had a predominately Jewish student body but by 1982 , the school and the neighborhood it is located in had become mostly African @-@ American . Desegregation efforts , such as magnet school programs , have attempted to attract students from throughout Minneapolis and nearby suburbs . 
