West Roxbury Education Complex
West Roxbury High School is a high school within Boston Public Schools located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, about ten miles southwest of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Facts
West Roxbury High School has been renamed West Roxbury Educational Complex[1], and is divided into four schools: Media Communications Technology High School, Parkway Academy of Technology and Health, Urban Science Academy [2] and Brook Farm Business & Service Career Academy. [3]
The school is located between Millennium Park and a large wetland. An island within the wetland is accessible by a boardwalk from the shore behind the school where the Boston Schoolyard Initiative built an Outdoor Classroom and science education site in collaboration with the Urban Science Academy.
The School is located near the 19th Century site of Brook Farm, and in the watershed of the upper Charles River.
Notable alumni
- 2000 Manny Delcarmen, Boston Red Sox
- 1988 Ron Stone, NFL Football Player
- 1988 Patrice Oneal (Comediene)
Athletics
The West Roxbury Boys Baseball Team won the Boston City South championship in 2008
The West Roxbury Football Team won the Boston City South championship in 2006
Long time coach Leo Sybertz led the West Roxbury Football Team to 5 Super Bowl wins, 2 players who went on to NFL careers, 202 wins, still a record in the City League, 13 league championships and 10 playoff appearances in 31 years as head coach.[1]
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