NORTH MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL

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'North Miami Senior High School' ['NMSHS'], is a secondary school located at 800 NE 137th St in North Miami, Florida. As of 2007 its principal is Carnell A. White.
North Miami Senior High School's construction started in 1951 for the students of the North Miami area. The school first opened its gates in August of 1954. The class of 1955 was the first graduating class.
North Miami's main athletic rival is North Miami Beach Senior High School.

Contents

Programs

Sports

Famous Alumni

Test Scores

Student body

Plans for the future

See also

External links

Programs

★ North Miami Senior High School has offered the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme since January of 1990.

★ Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) is also offered at NMSH.

Sports

North Miami Senior High School offers:

★ Football

★ Badminton

★ Baseball

★ Basketball

★ Softball

★ Soccer

★ Wrestling

★ Water Polo

★ Swimming

★ Track

★ Volleyball

★ Tennis
Junior Varsity and Varsity is offered for all sports. In addition, girls can participate in almost every sport.
The school has two mascots: The Pioneers & The Swamp Dogs.

Famous Alumni

★ Cool and Dre - Andre Lyon & Marcello Valenzano

★ Steve Carlton, Hall of Fame Pitcher.

★ Paul Gleason, actor.

★ David Paulison, Director of FEMA

★ Carlos Castellanos, cartoonist and co-creator of the comic strip Baldo

★ Jeffrey Zucker, current President & CEO of NBC Universal

★ Bill Conti, a film musical director.

★ Darrell Gwynn, world champion racecar driver[1]

★ Bryan Pata, American football player - attended, but didn't graduate

Test Scores

'North Miami Senior High School' was given a grade of "'I'" by the Florida Department of Education in 2006-2007. In 2005-2006, this school received a "'D'".

Student body

★ 81% of the students are African-American, 15% are of Hispanic origin, 2% are non-Hispanic whites, and 2% are of Asian decent. The rest consists of Multicultural and American Indian.

★ 47% of the students in the school participate in the free or reduced-price lunch program.

★ The attendance rate of the school is 90% compared to the state average of 94%.

Plans for the future

The City of North Miami and the Miami-Dade County School Board have agreed to a plan to build a new North Miami High School on the grounds of North Miami Middle School and build a new North Miami Middle on the grounds of North Miami High.

See also

★ North Miami Middle School

★ Miami-Dade County Public Schools

★ high school

★ Education in the United States

External links

★ Miami-Dade County Public Schools

★ Great Schools Profile