Students at Minnehaha Academy Head Back to School

An explosion destroyed part of their campus in Minneapolis last month

MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Students at Minnehaha Academy’s Upper School headed back to school at their new home in Mendota Heights.

An explosion destroyed part of their campus in Minneapolis last month.

Classes are being held on the former site of Brown College, located in an industrial park about six miles south of Minnehaha Academy’s Minneapolis campus.

The site will serve as the school’s temporary home for the foreseeable future.

The natural gas explosion on Aug. 2 killed two staff members and injured nine other people.

Part of the school was destroyed in the blast, likely related to construction that was going on in the building at the time.