Palm Beach County Magnet School Program
Posted in HomeBy adminOn 02/12/17STANTONCOLLEGEPREP. Palm Beach County Magnet School Program' title='Palm Beach County Magnet School Program' />Suncoast Community High School Wikipedia. Suncoast Community High School. Address. 17. 17 Avenue SRiviera Beach, Florida, Palm Beach. United States Of America. Coordinates. 262. Palm Beach County Magnet School Program' title='Palm Beach County Magnet School Program' />N8. W 2. N 8. 0. 0. 62. W 2. Coordinates 2. N8. 00. 34. 3W 2. N 8. 0. 0. 62. 0W 2. Information. Funding type. Public. Motto. We are the World3Established. School district. Palm Beach County School District. Principal. Karen Whetsell. Grades. 9 1. 2Enrollment. ColorsGreen and Gold Athletics. Baseball, Softball, Football, Volleyball, Track and Field, Swimming 2Mascot. Chargers. Team name. Chargers. Publication. Syzygy, literary magazine. Newspaper. The Legend. Native Instrument Battery 2 here. Yearbook. Renaissance. Communities served. Stanton College Preparatory School. W 13TH ST. Jacksonville, FL 322095699. Phone 9046306760. Pinellas County Schools is the seventh largest district in Florida with 150 schools including magnets, career academies, adult education centers and our own virtual. Palm Beach County Magnet School. Band. The Chargersonic Sound. Palm Beach County Magnet School Program' title='Palm Beach County Magnet School Program' />Founded as. Forticlient Windows 10 here. Riviera Beach High School. Accreditation. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Florida Department of Education. International Baccalaureate. National Association for College Admission Counseling. Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Websitewww. edline. SuncoastHighSchool. Suncoast Community High School is a publicmagnethigh school grades 9 1. Riviera Beach, Florida. The schools campus was built in 1. Riviera Beach High School. It was desegregated in the 1. It became a magnet school in 1. Students at Suncoast belong to one or more of the schools four magnet programs Math, Science, and Engineering MSE, Computer Science CS, International Baccalaureate IB, or the Innovative Interactive Technology Program IIT. The schools teams compete as the Chargers. HistoryeditThe schools campus was built in 1. Riviera Beach High School. During the 1. 95. Riviera Beach High School was known for both its academics and its athletics. The Riviera Beach High Hornets were particularly strong in mens basketball, with games against rival Palm Beach High School routinely drawing packed crowds. Conversion to a magnet schooleditIn 1. 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 teachers unions. The principal at the time was Kay Carnes, who remained Suncoasts principal for 1. Suncoast students and prospective students were required to apply in late spring, and minimum GPA and new dress code were adopted. About 1. 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 2. Suncoasts 6. 66. About 3. Suncoast students stayed. The introduction of the IB program greatly improved racial balance at the school in this year of the introduction of the magnet program 7. Suncoasts students were black despite improving its racial balance by 1. Suncoast was the target of an investigation beginning June 2, 1. U. S. Department of Educations. 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 allegedly allowed Suncoast and John F. Kennedy Junior High to become segregated black schools, allowing enrollment to decline and facilities to become run down. 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. New CampuseditStarting in fall of the 2. Suncoast Community High School moved to a new campus located at 1. Avenue S. The campus cost the school district 8. The new campus consists of five main buildings the office, the gym, the cafeteria, the auditorium, and the main student building an open court as well as a new football field. The main building is three stories high. AcademicseditStudents apply to Suncoast via the Palm Beach County School Districts 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 1. 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. Hopper Travel Site. Kennedy Middle School, are automatically admitted. ProgramseditMath, Science Engineering programeditThe Math, Science and Engineering Program MSE concentrates on mathematics, science particularly physics, and engineering. Suncoast MSE and MSEIB dual enrolled sophomores take AP Physics 1 2, as well as AP Calculus AB. MSE and MSEIB juniors take AP Physics C Mechanics and AP Physics C Electricity and Magnetism, as well as an Engineering Research class, and Calculus IIIII half a year of what otherwise would be called Calculus BC and half a year of Multivariable Calculus. As seniors, both MSE and MSEIB students take Differential Equations I for one semester, then a semester of Differential Equations II, taught through the same dual enrollment program. Students in only the MSE Program take AP Chemistry or AP Biology, those in MSEIB take IB Higher Level Physics Physics III, as well as a semester of further engineering research. All MSE Students are required to do a science fair project many have been selected to compete in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and take two engineering classes at Florida Atlantic Universitys Engineering Scholars Program, a Florida Governors Summer Program of Excellence. International Baccalaureate ProgrameditThe International Baccalaureate IB program was adopted for junior and senior years. Students can take MYP Middle Years Programme classes in their freshman and sophomore years. Foreign language is an IB requirement Many students dual enroll with Palm Beach Community College or Florida Atlantic University through the Palm Beach County School Districts Dual Enrollment Program. Despite their program, all students participate in MYP classes, giving them the option of switching into IB classes their last two years of high school. Computer Science programeditThe Computer Science CS Program is a four year course of study designed to meet the needs students who wish to specialize in the area of computer science and engineering. The program requires that students be successful in medium level math and science courses, as well as, the required computer science courses that make up the core of the curriculum. Core computer science courses include study in the areas of computer software and hardware engineering, computer graphics, classic computer science algorithms, artificial intelligenceneural networks, current research and ethicalsocial issues of computer science. These skills will be learned using programming languages such as Java. Successful completion of honors level Geometry and Algebra I is required prior to admission to the CS program in grade nine. Courses required to complete the CS curriculum include Algebra II Honors, Pre calculus, Calculus I and Dual Enrollment advanced mathematics Discrete MathematicsGraph Theory, Programming II C, IB Computer Studies Java, AP Computer Science Java, Advanced Topics in Computer Science, Introduction to Computer Engineering Digital Design and Ethics and Technology.