Park Vista Community High School
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| Park Vista Community High School | |
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| Established | 2004 |
| Type | Public (magnet) secondary |
| Principal | Reginald Myers |
| Students | 2926 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | Lake Worth, Florida, United States |
| District | Palm Beach County School District |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Royal Blue and Black |
| Mascot | Cobra |
| Website | http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/91eeehs/ |
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Park Vista Community High School (PVHS, PVCHS, PV) is a public high school in Lake Worth, Florida, United States.
The school offers four academies (Medical, Information Technology, Television and Film, and Automotive) in which it takes great pride. These academies act as the school's Magnet Program and draws students all throughout Palm Beach County. The only unfortunate drawback to these magnet programs is the drawing of students from other high schools, leading to overcrowding.
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[edit] Academies
[edit] Information Technology
The Information Technology (IT) Academy is the largest academy at Park Vista. It focuses mainly on multimedia, offering courses such as Introduction to Information Technology (must be taken freshman year), Digital Video, New Media, Web Design (1, 2, and 3), Video Game Design, etc. There are also some courses related to Computer Support, teaching students about the mechanics of computers. Each academy member, depending on the class, works with numerous forms of technology. These include: digital video cameras, green screens, iMac computers, and sound equipment. Some of the programs that are used by students in the academy are: Microsoft Office, Adobe Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Final Cut Pro.
[edit] Television and Film
The Television and Film Academy houses state of the art equipment, with its own studio with a green screen, control room, and editing bay area with the 11 mac computers used with final cut pro and live type for editing projects, music videos, commercials, or openers. This academy puts on the morning announcements every morning, done by the sophomores on seven period and even days, and by the juniors on odd days. The announcements is a team show, acquiring fifteen people to fill the all the jobs to put on the show. The academy is broken down by different levels, based on your school year. There is the first level TV 1 for freshmen year, TV 2 for sophomore year, TV 3 for junior year, and TV 4 for senior year.
[edit] Medical
Park Vista's Medical Academy is currently a four-year long program. The program consists of Medical Skills & Services, an entry level course;± Health Science 1, a course that mainly focuses on Anatomy and Physiology; Health Science 2, focused on several aspects of the medical field; and three exiting courses: Nursing Assistant 3, Allied Health 3, and First Responder 3.
MSS was dropped after the 2007-2008 school year. Students entering the academy as freshmen during the 2008-2009 school year and after will begin their medical training with the Health Science 1 course. Forensic Science was added as a 4th exiting course.
[edit] Automotive
Park Vista High School has a state of the art automotive shop, with 17 lifts, 2 paintbooths, and tire balancing machines among much more equipment.
[edit] Athletics
[edit] Types of Sports Offered
"As of 2011" See 2010 however, Boys' Lacrosse has been added as a Varsity Sport
As of 2010:
- Baseball: Freshman, Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Basketball: Girls', Boys'- Freshman, Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Bowling: Varsity
- Cross-Country: Freshman, Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Football: Freshman, Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Flag Football: Varsity
- Golf: Girls', Boys'- Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Ice Hockey*
- Lacrosse: Girls' Junior Varsity, Varsity
Accomplishments Include - District Champions: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 County Champions: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Regional Champions: 2008, 2009, 2010 State Finalists: 2008, 2009, 2010
- Cross Country: Girls, Boys - Varsity
- Lacrosse: Boys'* Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Soccer: Girls', Boys'- Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Softball
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track/Field
- Volleyball: Girls'- Freshman, Junior Varsity, Varsity; Boys'- Junior Varsity, Varsity
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling: Junior Varsity, Varsity
* Club Sport is not supported by School (Hockey)
[edit] Overcrowding
The school's current student population is at approximately 2960 students. Currently, Palm Beach County has worked alongside Park Vista and other area high schools to reestablish the school's residential zoning. See Re-Zoning below.
[edit] Re-Zoning
Due to the school being overcapacity, after the 07-08 school year, an area of Boynton Beach was re-zoned from Park Vista Community High School to Olympic Heights Community High School in Boca Raton. This area includes SAC's 259A, 259B, and 242, which include; Canyon Lakes, Canyon Isles, Canyon Springs, Equus, Cobblestone Creek, and Verona Lakes. Other areas were re-zoned for Boynton Beach Community High School, such as; SAC's 252, 260, 262A, 262B, 261, and 253. Developments included; Sun Valley, Coronado Estates, Country Fair, Lakes of Boynton Beach, and Indian Springs. However, after local residents fought the Boundaries Committee of Palm Beach County School District, residents that were going to be re-zoned for Boynton Beach High School would have the option to "opt-out" and attend Olympic Heights Community High School. This was because BBCHS is a "C" rated school and has excessive violence, according to parents. These changes only affected incoming freshmen for the 2008-2009 school year and after, meaning that any student already attending the school would automatically gain the right to stay at the school until they graduate.
[edit] Student Schedule
The school follows a block schedule composed of three alternating types of days. Students attend classes 1, 3, 5 and 7 on "odd" days, 2, 4, 5, and 6 on "even" days, and each of their seven classes on "seven period" days. Fifth hour is visited everyday, for it is the lunch period. The schedule is sometimes changed due to various school activities such as pep rallies and late start days.
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