Aurora Bay High School is a large public high school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1952, Aurora Bay has seen periodic renovation and upgrades, though in places the three-story brick building shows its age. Academically, Aurora Bay is a very mixed bag, due in no small part to some changes roughly two decades ago when it absorbed another nearby high school. Aurora Bay is home to both a flourishing Advanced Placement program and also a remedial program seeking to keep troubled teens in school long enough to graduate. These represent two extreme ends of the spectrum, however, and the majority of the students land somewhere in the middle.

Aurora Bay's size and reasonable level of funding allow it to field a number of successful sports teams, with the hockey team and the football team particularly renowned. The school's mascot is The General, a caricature of a military officer allegedly based on a local hero who served in World War II, and its colors are orange and navy blue.

The school has quite a large staff, presided over by Principal Melvin Carter, who took over at the start of the 2017-2018 school year following the death of his predecessor in a car accident. Principal Carter is generally somewhat aloof, and a number of the students, parents, and teachers in the community have commented that he carries a certain intimidating air that's hard to fully articulate. Perhaps a lot of it is that he walks unusually quietly.