Coral Reef High School

Coral Reef High School is a secondary school located at 10101 S.W. 152nd Street in Miami, Florida; its principal is Adrianne F. Leal. According to Newsweek's List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools (2005), the school is ranked at 13^th in the nation, making it 3^rd in the state of Florida. Jump to: navigation, search Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is a public school district serving Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the Greater Miami Area. ... Jump to: navigation, search In the U.S. system of education, a magnet school is a public school that draws students interested in specific subjects such as academics or the arts from the surrounding region (typically a school district or a county). ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1997(MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Senators Bill Nelson (D) Mel Martinez (R) Official language(s) English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... Jump to: navigation, search Species See text The barracuda (Sphyraenus, family Sphyraenidae) is a ray-finned fish notable for its large size (up to 1. ... Teal may mean: Look up Teal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A type of duck, for example The Common Teal, Anas crecca The Green-winged Teal, Anas carolinensis The Black Teal, Aythya novaeseelandiae The Brown Teal, Anas aucklandica The Silver Teal, Anas versicolor The Cape Teal, Anas capensis teal (color... Silver is the metallic shade of the color gray closest to that of polished silver. ... This article is about the color black; for other uses, see Black (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links CoralReefHighSchoolMiami. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links CoralReefHighSchoolMiami. ... Secondary school may refer to Secondary school in the United Kingdom, is the general term for the schools for children between the ages of eleven and eighteen in most areas (a few areas have schools for 13-18 year olds instead, and these are called upper schools). ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Senators Bill Nelson (D) Mel Martinez (R) Official language(s) English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... Jump to: navigation, search Newsweeks List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools is compiled annually. ...

Coral Reef is locally known as "Miami's Mega Magnet School" since it has a magnet program for every subject it offers. The school does not serve the surrouding neighborhoods, but instead takes in applications from middle school students all over the county and selects them depending on ability for their nationally accredited magnet programs. Students living around the Coral Reef area attend G. Holmes Braddock High School. Coral Reef does take in students from Southwood Middle School's magnet music program, though students who attend Southwood and are not part of the music magnet program must continue onto Miami Southridge High School. Jump to: navigation, search G. Holmes Braddock High School G. Holmes Braddock High School is a secondary school located at 3601 SW 147th Avenue in Miami, Florida. ...

Coral Reef has set the standard amongst other schools in the county as being the only school to receive an "A" grade for its performance on the FCAT examination every year that schools have been graded. Due to this, the school receives higher funding than most other schools in the district. The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or the FCAT, is the means of standardized testing in the primary and secondary public schools of Florida. ...

Coral Reef's six magnet programs are as follows:

• Agriscience & Engineering Technology

• Business & Finance

• Legal & Public Affairs

• Leisure Medicine & Health Science

• Visual & Performing Arts

• International Baccalaureate

Coral Reef has three publications: the newspaper, Baitline, their yearbook, Tsunami, and the school's literary magazine, Elysium. The newspaper is published monthly while the yearbook and literary magazine are both published annually. The daily morning newscast, Cudavision, airs on closed-circuit channel 21. Jump to: navigation, search The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a group of three educational programmes and their respective examinations, as established by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). ...

See also

• Miami-Dade County Public Schools
• high school
• Magnet school
• Education in the United States
• Newsweek's List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools (2005)

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External links

• Miami-Dade County Public Schools
• Coral Reef High School homepage