COOPER CITY HIGH SCHOOL

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'Cooper City High School'

District	Broward County Public Schools
School type	Public
Religious affiliation	None
Opened	September 1971
Location	Cooper City, Florida, USA
Enrollment 2005-2006	2,526 students
Grades	9-12
Campus surroundings	Suburban
School Mascot	Lasso Larry (formerly Pistol Pete)
School colors	Red, Black, and White
School Hours	7:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Average Class Size	22

'Cooper City High School' is a secondary school located in Cooper City, Florida which teaches grades 9-12.
The school includes standard high school curriculum plus specialized classes devoted to career development including auto tech and computer programming. It has an average enrollment of approximately 2,500 students. Since the 2004-2005 school year the school principal is Ms. Wendy Doll. The school colors are red, black, and white and the mascot is a cowboy named "Lasso Larry." "Pistol Pete," the former mascot, was deemed inappropriate due to the fact that he wields two handguns.

Contents

Facilities

Programs

Notable alumni and staff

Alumni

Faculty

Clubs/Organizations

Scandals

Murder

External links

References

Facilities

The school, built in 1971, is aging quickly and is no longer capable of holding all of the students that occupy it every day due to mold related health issues and the new 6,000 home development of Waldrep Dairy. A new 36-classroom building is going to be opened during the 2007-2008 school year. This building will be followed by a new cafeteria building, another 36-classroom building, an office building, and the destruction of the original buildings (in 2010).

Programs

The school is also well known for its extensive Advanced Placement program. Having 20 available Advanced Placement courses available to the students, the school creates a positive influence for students admitting into college, usually producing valedictorians with well over 10 AP credits simply from courses taken at the school (ie. 12 credits excluding exams taken by the student independently of Cooper City High).
However, the Advanced Placement places arbitrary limitations on students. AP European History, for example, cannot be taken until twelfth grade. Some courses which may be common in other schools, such as AP Psychology, are, as of 2007, not offered.

Notable alumni and staff

Alumni

Notable alumni of Cooper City High School include:

★ Olindo Mare, kicker for the Miami Dolphins football team since 1997. On April 4, 2007, Mare was traded from the Miami Dolphins to the New Orleans Saints for the Saints' 6th round pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.

★ Niki Taylor, model;

★ Gary Bosko and N. Eric Phillips, founders of Pivot Entertainment;

★ Shane Lee Ryan, naturalist and author, also snack food designer. Died during 7th ascent of Mount Everest due to a defective oxygen cylinder.

★ Alley Deheza, member of On! Air! Library! and School of Seven Bells.

★ Claudia Deheza, member of On! Air! Library!, appears on Prefuse 73 albums.

★ Jeff Wagner, musician. Currently plays keyboards with The Postmarks^[1].

★ Bobby Estalella, Major League Baseball catcher, ^[2]

★ Ashley Ames (aka Sloan, aka Lilly Ann, aka Ivey), Porn Star/Penthouse Pet/Hustler model; ^{[3] [4]}

★ Keith Murray, Lead Singer of We Are Scientists; ^[5], graduated 1995 (sang "Don't You Forget About Me" at his graduation)

Faculty

★ Dr. Jorge Rigol, discovered darmstadtium ^[6]

Clubs/Organizations

★ Amnesty International

★ Anime/Art Club

★ Band

★ Best Buddies

★ Colorguard

★ Cowboys Against Cancer

★ German Club

★ German Honor Society

★ DECA

★ Debate Club

★ DFYIT (Drug Free Youth In Town)

★ FJAS (Florida Junior Academy of Sciences)

★ FMPA (Future Medical Professionals of America)

★ Infinite Club

★ Varsity Ice Hockey

★ JV Basketball

★ Varsity Basketball

★ JV Football

★ Varsity Football

★ Human Relations Council

★ Key Club

★ Math Club/Tutoring

★ Multicultural club

★ NHS (National Honor Society)

★ RSDA (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Awareness)

★ SITE (Students Improving The Environment)

★ Spanish Club

★ Spanish National Honor Society

★ Thespians / Drama Club

★ The Adventurers Guild

★ JSU (Jewish Student Union)

★ Philosophical Discourse Society

★ PAW (Promoting Animal Welfare)

★ PRES Club (Promoting Reading in the Elementary Setting)

★ VAFA (Voice Against Family Abuse)

Scandals

On May 26, 1993 two Cooper City High school girls were arrested on prostitution charges. ^[7]
On December 12, 2006 the president of the senior class, Ryan Shrouder, was arrested on two counts of a computer crime with intent to defraud. Shrouder allegedly illegally accessed Broward School District computers and gave himself and 19 classmates better grades. He was released from the Broward County Jail after posting $5,000 bond. ^[8]
In May 2007 a chlorine bomb was set off in an outdoor trashcan, upsetting faculty.^[9]

Murder

Cooper City High School first appeared on the national stage with the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent by a group of current and previous students. The murder resulted in a best selling crime book, "Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge", and a 2001 film, "Bully".
The story was also covered during an A&E Television crime special.

External links

★ Cooper City High School website (redirects from www.broward.k12.fl.us/coopercityhigh/)

★ Cooper City High School statistics provided by publicschoolreview.com

★ Cooper City High School boundary map (PDF)

★ Broward County Public Schools FCAT school grades (2002-2005)

★ Cooper City High Freeservers

★ CCHS Class of 1977

References

1. http://www.southflorida.com/citylink/sfe-cl-040407cover,0,3958558.story?coll=sfe-cl-top-promo
2. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/bobby_estalella.shtml
3. http://www.epornreview.com/g447
4. http://www.lillyann.com/
5. http://www.wearescientists.com/
6. http://www.jrigol.com
7. INQUIRY IN SEX CASE UNRESOLVED
8. Class president could be expelled
9. BSO: Acid Bomb Explodes At Cooper City High