Suncoast Community High School is a public magnet high school (grades 9-12) in Riviera Beach, Florida. A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... The term public school has three distinct meanings: In the USA and Canada, elementary or secondary school supported and administered by state and local officials. ... In the U.S. system of education, a magnet school is a public school which offers innovative courses, specialized training, etc. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... A Riviera Beach sign Riviera Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, U.S.A. which was incorporated September 29, 1922. ...

The campus was built in 1955 as Riviera Beach High School. Renamed in 1970, Suncoast became a magnet school in 1989. All students belong to one or two of the school's four magnet programs: International Baccalaureate (IB), Math, Science, and Engineering (MSE), Computer Science (CS), or the Interdisciplinary Program (IDP). In the U.S. system of education, a magnet school is a public school which offers innovative courses, specialized training, etc. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into International Baccalaureate Organization. ...

History

Suncoast's campus was built in 1955 as Riviera Beach High School. During the 1950s and 1960s, Riviera Beach High School was known for both its academics and its athletics. The Riviera Beach High Hornets were particularly strong in men's basketball, with games against rival Palm Beach High School routinely drawing packed crowds.

While Riviera Beach High School had been desegregated during the 1960s (by the end of the decade the school's student population was approximately 15 percent black and 85 percent white), a court order to desegregate all schools in the School District of Palm Beach County resulted in nearby J.F. Kennedy High School, where the student body was almost entirely African-American, being converted to a junior high school, now J.F. Kennedy Middle School. Beginning in 1970, black students who had been going to J.F. Kennedy High School, or who had anticipated going there, were forced to attend what had been the mostly white Riviera Beach High, which had been renamed Suncoast and given the new mascot of the chargers. Manifestations Slavery Racial profiling Lynching Hate speech Hate crime Genocide (examples) Ethnocide Ethnic cleansing Pogrom Race war Religious persecution Blood libel Paternalism Police brutality Movements Policies Discriminatory Race / Religion / Sex segregation Apartheid Redlining Internment Ethnocracy Anti-discriminatory Affirmative action in the United States Emancipation Civil rights Desegregation Integration Equal opportunity... A court order is an official proclamation by a judge (or panel of judges) that defines the legal relationships between the parties before the court and requires or authorizes the carrying out of certain steps by one or more parties to a case. ... The School District of Palm Beach County is the eleventh largest public school district in the United States, and the fourth largest school district in Florida. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary/elementary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ...

Suncoast's first year was marred by major race riots that received national media coverage, with police using tear gas and helicopters to break up rock-throwing and fights between mobs of black and white students. Racial tensions remained high at the school over the next several years, and while there were no more riots on the scale of 1970-71, there was a gradual exodus of white students from Suncoast High as their families either enrolled them in private or parochial schools, or moved. By the late 1980s, the racial makeup of Suncoast's student population was more segregated than it had been 20 years before. A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil unrest in which race is a key factor. ... A riot control agent is a type of lachrymatory agent (or lacrimatory agent). ... For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ...

In 1989 Suncoast, along with Atlantic High in Delray Beach and S.D. Spady Elementary School, became a magnet school. The institution of magnet programs was originally opposed by several black organizations and some teacher's unions.^[1][2] The principal at the time was Kay Carnes, who remained Suncoast's principal for 15 years before stepping down at the end of the 2004 school year.) Current Suncoast students and prospective students were required to apply in late spring, and minimum GPA and new dress code were adopted.^[3][4] About 150 former Suncoast students left the school this year and moved to either Palm Beach Gardens or Jupiter high school (which the previous school year had enrollments of more than 2000 compared with Suncoast's 666). About 350 Suncoast students stayed.^[5] Atlantic Community High School is a public high school located in Delray Beach, Florida. ... The Delray School, built in 1913, now houses the Cornell Museum, part of Old School Square in Delray Beach. ... This article is about evaluation of school work. ... Clothing has various sociological functions, including: conspicuous consumption stating or claiming identity establishing, maintaining and defying sociological group norms Thus wearing specific types of clothing or the manner of wearing clothing can convey messages about class, income, belief and attitude. ...

The introduction of the IB program improved greatly racial balance at the school; in this year of the introduction of the magnet program 71 percent of Suncoast's students were black (despite improving its racial balance by 19.3 percent that year).^[6] Suncoast was the target of an investigation beginning on June 2, 1987 by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. The investigation began after parents complained in a letter-writing campaign to state and federal officials that the School Board and then-Superintendent Tom Mills allowed Suncoast and John F. Kennedy Junior High to become segregated black schools, allowing enrollment to decline and facilities to become run down.^[7] Two years earlier Mills had proposed busing white students from southern Jupiter to integrate Suncoast, but Jupiter parents opposed the plan and it was dropped.^[8] The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building[1]) , ED headquarters in Washington, DC A construction project to repair and update the building facade at the Department of Education Headquarters building in 2002 resulted in the installation of structures at all of the entrances to protect employees and visitors from... The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) that is the primarily focused on the protecting the civil rights in Federally assisted education programs and prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, or age. ... Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is a self-identification data item in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify. ... Jupiter Lighthouse. ...

Academics

Students apply to Suncoast via the Palm Beach County School District's Magnet and Choice School Application Form. Applicants apply for a specific program or programs and are admitted into the school by a selective lottery after the top 10 percent of applicants (based upon Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) scores, teacher recommendations, and grades) are admitted. Additionally, students who complete the IB Middle Years Programme at an area middle school, such as John F. Kennedy Middle School, are automatically admitted. A lottery is a popular form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. ... The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or the FCAT, is the standardized test used in the primary and secondary public schools of Florida. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary/elementary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ...

Students in the International Baccalaureate program take IB classes. Although the IB program is only the junior and senior years, freshmen and sophomores take "pre-IB" classes. Foreign language is an IB requirement; Suncoast offers three: Spanish, French, and (since the 2005-2006 school year, Mandarin Chinese. Many students dual-enroll with Palm Beach Community College or Florida Atlantic University through the Palm Beach County School District's Dual-Enrollment Program. A foreign language is a language not spoken by the indigenous people of a certain place: for example, English is a foreign language in Japan. ... Map of eastern China and Taiwan, showing the historic distribution of Mandarin Chinese in light brown. ... In education, dual enrollment is where a student is enrolled in two separate, academically related institutions. ... Located in Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach Community College (PBCC) enrolls over 46,000 students in more than 100 programs of study including associate of arts and associate of science degree programs and short-term certificates. ... “FAU” redirects here. ...

The Math, Science, and Engineering Program (MSE) concentrates on mathematics, science (particularly physics), and engineering. Suncoast MSE and MSE/IB dual-enrolled sophomores take AP Physics B, as well as Pre-IB Chemistry and Calculus AB. MSE and MSE/IB juniors take AP Physics C: Mechanics and AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, as well as an Engineering Research class, and Calculus II/III (half a year of what otherwise would be called "Calculus BC" and half a year of Multivariable Calculus). As Seniors, both MSE and MSE/IB students take a semester of Differential Equations, and a semester of Matrix Theory, taught through the same dual-enrollment program. Students in only the MSE Program take AP Chemistry and AP Biology, those in MSE/IB take IB Higher-Level Physics (Physics III), as well as a semester of further engineering research. All MSE Students are required to complete a Science fair project (many have been selected to compete in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair), and to take two engineering classes at Florida Atlantic University's Engineering Scholars' Program, a Florida Governor's Summer Program of Excellence. For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying scientific knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria. ... AP Physics B is an advanced placement science course that is separated into five different sections of study: Newtonian Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Physics, Waves and Optics, and Atomic and Nuclear Physics. ... A science fair is generally a competition where contestants create projects related to science and/or technology. ... The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is the largest pre-college scientific event in the world. ...

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The Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) is a general college preparatory program.

The College Board named Suncoast the "Exemplary AP Comparative Government and Politics" program among schools with 1000 students or more, with the world's largest percentage of mastery (passing) scores for that AP exam in 2005.^[9]. AP Comparative Government is no longer offered at Suncoast. The College Board is a not-for-profit examination board in the United States that was formed in the nineteenth century as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB). ... This college-level course is both a survey of the various forms of government found throughout the world and an in-depth study of specific governments and approaches to politics. ...

Newsweek has listed Suncoast in its annual "Best High Schools in America" list, which ranks public high schools according to their score in the "Challenge Index" developed by Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews. The scale is a ratio that divides the number of AP, IB, and Cambridge exams taken by all students at a school, divided by the number of graduating seniors. (The scale does not measure how many students passed the exams and also excludes schools with average SAT scores above 1300 or average ACT scores above 27—these are categorized as "Public Elite" schools). In 2007 Suncoast ranked #5 (index 8.395); in 2006 Suncoast ranked #7 (7.532).^[10] The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... The Challenge Index is a method for the statistical ranking of top public high schools in the United States by Washington Post columnist Jay Matthews. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ... Jay Mathews (born April 5, 1945, in Long Beach, California) is an author, education reporter and online columnist with the Washington Post. ... ESOL logo The University of Cambridge ESOL examinations are examinations in English language ability for non-native speakers of English. ... For other uses, see SAT (disambiguation). ... The ACT® test is a standardized achievement examination for college admissions in the United States produced by ACT, Inc. ...

Extracurricular activities

Suncoast's National Physics Competition, speech and debate, Academic Games,^[11] FIRST Robotics Competition, Mu Alpha Theta, and Academic WorldQuest^[12][13] teams have also won nationally. The International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) is an annual physics competition for high school students. ... Debate (North American English) or debating (British English) is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument. ... Academic Games is a U.S. competition in which players win by out-thinking each other in mathematics, language arts, and social studies. ... FIRST Logo FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 in order to develop ways to excite students about engineering and technology. ... Mu Alpha Theta is a national mathematics honor society with over 65,000 student members in more than 1,400 schools worldwide. ... Academic WorldQuest (also referred to as WorldQuest) is an annual team-based international affairs, geography, history and culture competiton sponsored by the World Affairs Councils of America. ...

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Athletics

Suncoast is a member of the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA), and competes in the 4-A division. Varsity sports include basketball, baseball, football, tennis, soccer, volleyball, golf, lacrosse, cross-country, track, water polo, and swimming. The Florida High School Athletic Association or FHSAA is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), which is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. ... This article is about the sport. ... This article is about the sport. ... A running back sweeps the left end in a high school football game near // Link title Cincinnati, Ohio High school football or prep(s) football is one of most popular interscholastic sports at high schools in the United States and among the most popular in Canada after ice hockey. ... For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... Soccer redirects here. ... For the ball used in this sport, see Volleyball (ball). ... This article is about the game. ... For other uses, see Lacrosse (disambiguation). ... The Minnesota State Highschool Cross Country Meet A cross country race in Seaside, Oregon. ... A womens 400 m hurdles race on a typical outdoor red rubber track in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Finland. ... Water polo is a team water sport. ... Swimmer redirects here. ...

In 2006, the girls' varsity volleyball team won the State 4A Championship. In 1981, the football team reached the state finals, but lost to Palatka 42-2. The football team was the district champion in 1984 and 2002. The boys' cross-country team qualified for the state meet for five consecutive years from 1998-2002. The girls' track team was the state champion for four years in a row from 1999-2002. For the ball used in this sport, see Volleyball (ball). ... Location in the State of Florida Coordinates: , County Incorporated January 8, 1853 Government  - Mayor-Commissioner Karl N. Flagg Area  - City 19. ...

The boys' basketball team won state championships in 1984, 1985, and 1990. The 1990 team, led by future NBA point guard Anthony Goldwire, went 36-0. Former wide receiver Anthony Carter was a three-time All-American for the Michigan Wolverines and was inducted into the College Hall of Fame eventually playing in the NFL for the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions. Devin Hester '02 played Miami Hurricanes football and currently plays for the Chicago Bears.^[15] This article is about the sport. ... NBA redirects here. ... Bob Cousy Point guard (PG), also called the one or the ball-handler, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. ... Anthony Goldwire (born on September 6, 1971 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is a player in the NBA. He played for the University of Houston. ... The wide receiver (WR) position in American and Canadian football is the pass-catching specialist. ... Anthony Carter (born September 17, 1960 in Riviera Beach, Florida) was an American football wide receiver. ... The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective position. ... Head coach Lloyd Carr 13th year, 121–40 Home stadium Michigan Stadium Capacity 107,501 - Field Turf Conference Big Ten First year 1879 Athletic director William C. Martin Website MGoBlue. ... NFL redirects here. ... League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1961–present) Western Conference (1961-1969) Central Division (1967-1969) National Football Conference (1970-present) NFC Central (1970-2001) NFC North (2002-present) Current uniform Team colors Purple, Gold, White Fight song Skol, Vikings Mascot Viktor the Viking, Ragnar Personnel Owner Zygi Wilf General... City Detroit, Michigan Team colors Honolulu Blue, Silver, and Black Head Coach Rod Marinelli Owner William Clay Ford, Sr. ... Devin Hester (born November 4, 1982) is a wide receiver and return specialist, who plays for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. ... Head coach Randy Shannon 1st year, 4–2–0 Home stadium Miami Orange Bowl Capacity 72,319 - Grass Conference ACC - Coastal First year 1926 Athletic director Paul Dee Website HurricaneSports. ... City Chicago, Illinois Other nicknames Da Bears, The Monsters of the Midway Team colors Navy Blue and Orange Head Coach Lovie Smith Owner Virginia Halas McCaskey Chairman Michael McCaskey General manager Jerry Angelo Fight song Bear Down, Chicago Bears Mascot Staley Da Bear League/Conference affiliations Independent (1919) National Football...

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Principals

• Fredeva Nelson (1984-1987) - was removed June 30, 1987 "as the district struggled to overcome bad publicity." Nelson was demoted to an attendance specialist tracking truancy, and her salary dropped more than $20,000, down to $36,131. Nelson filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming the reason for her demotion was that she was female, black and was 50 years old. The Commission ruled March 9, 1989, that the school district did not discriminate.^[17] Nelson later became principal of the Redemptive Life Academy in West Palm Beach.^[18]
• Terry Andrews (1987-1989) - called "Rambo" and "Arnold Schwarzenegger" by students because of his weightlifting and reputation as a "no-nonsense principal" who reduced absenteeism and improved discipline,^[19] Andrews, from Gainesville, was transferred to Palm Beach Lakes High School in 1989.^[20] In 1989 he was one of 18 principals awarded Education Commissioner Betty Castor's Principal Recognition Award for Outstanding Leadership.^[21] He also was a black belt in Taekwondo.^[22]
• Kay A. Carnes (1989-2004) - Carnes presided over the first 15 years of magnet programs. Recognized as one of four outstanding Florida high school principals in the state by Education Commissioner Frank Brogan in 1998,^[23] Carnes was credited with much of the magnet programs' success. She was also noted for an exceptionally long term as principal of the same school in a district where principal turnover is high.^[24] Carnes retired at the end of the 2004 school year, having been recognized as an "energetic...pioneering principal."^[25]
• Gloria Crutchfield (2004-2008) - Crutchfield's tenure has been marked by controversy, including a split among administration, students, and parents,^[26] along with the unexplained firing of school football coach Jimmie Bell.^[27] Crutchfield was criticized by some for losing support from the community^[28] and for higher staff turnover. On May 4, 2008, it was announced that Gloria Crutchfield would be leaving Suncoast to the nearby John F. Kennedy Middle School. Superintendent Art Johnson says that the move is "a promotion"; the Palm Beach Post wrote that "Crutchfield's departure may be a relief for some faculty members and parents who have described her as a dictatorial figure who rarely returns phone calls, alienates parents and has caused many good veteran teaches to leave. In three years, 37 teachers have left, more than one-third of the staff."^[29] Crutchfield was also criticized for "jetting to Canada, California, Nevada, Tennessee, the Bahamas and Paris for school business trips and training seminars" paid for by the school district.^[30]

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Triva

• Jeffrey Mart, a Martin County attorney who was disbarred for five years by the Florida Supreme Court in 1989 for mishandling over $1 million from a client's trust fund, became an acclaimed science teacher at Suncoast, being named "Outstanding Teacher of the Year in Student Activities."^[31]

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References

External links

• Official website
• Great Schools Review
• RatemyTeachers.com: Suncoast High School