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Stuyvesant High School (pronounced /ˈstaɪvəsənt/), commonly referred to among its students as Stuy (pronounced /staɪ/), is a public college-preparatory, specialized high school in New York City, United States. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, these specialized schools offer tuition-free accelerated academics to city residents.

Stuyvesant was established as an all-boys school in the East Village of Manhattan in 1904. An entrance examination was mandated for all applicants starting in 1934, and the school started accepting female students in 1969. Stuyvesant moved to its current location at Battery Park City in 1992 because the student body had become too large to be suitably accommodated in the original campus. The old building now houses several high schools.

Admission to Stuyvesant involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. Every March, the 800 to 850 applicants with the highest SHSAT scores out of the around 30,000 students who apply to Stuyvesant are accepted. The school has a wide range of extracurricular activities, including a theater competition called SING! and two student publications. (Full article...)

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The Baltimore City College (BCC), also referred to as The Castle on the Hill, historically as The College, and most commonly City, is a public high school located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. The City College curriculum includes the International Baccalaureate Programme and emphasizes study in the classics and liberal arts. Baltimore City College is a magnet school, and admission is competitive. Applicants from Baltimore City and the surrounding area are evaluated for admission using a cumulation of academic grades and standardized test scores.

Established in 1839 originally as an all-male institution, City College is listed among the oldest high schools in the United States. The school was located in three different buildings in downtown Baltimore before relocating in 1928 to its current 38-acre (153,781 m²) campus at 33rd Street and the Alameda in the Waverly neighborhood of north Baltimore. Following an extensive renovation of the school's main building in 1978, the school became coeducational.

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Plano Senior High School (commonly Plano, Plano Senior High, or PSHS) is a public secondary school in Plano, Texas, USA, serving students in grades 11–12. The school is part of the Plano Independent School District, with admission based primarily on the locations of students' homes. Plano is a two-time Blue Ribbon School and a Texas Exemplary School. Founded in 1891 as Plano Public School, serving both primary and secondary students, the school was, by the mid-1910s, sending a majority of its graduating students on to college. Plano High School was created in 1952 by separating the primary students into Mendenhall Elementary School. In 1964, Plano High School integrated with the Frederick Douglass School (formerly Plano Colored School), and the integrated football team won the first of the school's seven state championships in 1965.

Plano administers more Advanced Placement tests each year than any other school west of the Mississippi River and all but one school in the United States. Plano's graduating classes are among the largest for high schools in the United States; its Class of 2005, with 1,112 graduates, was the second-largest high school graduating class in the U.S. that year, behind only that of Plano East Senior High School.

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Lethbridge Collegiate Institute (LCI) is the largest school operated by Lethbridge School District No. 51. The school is one of two public secondary schools in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, that serve grades nine, ten, eleven, and twelve. Entry into LCI is loosely based on resident location in either south or west Lethbridge. LCI was the first school in Lethbridge designated only for secondary students. It opened at its current location in 1950, but was founded in a smaller, adjacent building in 1928. Since its 1950 opening, several additions and layout changes have been made at the school. LCI has increased student capacity to 1,600, a number the enrollment is expected to reach in 2009.

A relatively extensive academic program is offered, including automotives, construction and communication technology, fashion studies, and four language studies programs. An Advanced Placement Program is offered in several key subject areas, including mathematics, language arts, and the sciences. Respected instrumental music, choir, and dance programs have helped LCI become well known in Southern Alberta for offering balanced opportunities to students in both academics and extracurricular activities.

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Aquinas College is a Catholic independent, day and boarding school for boys, located in Salter Point, Western Australia. The college was founded in 1938 as the child-school of Christian Brothers' College (CBC Perth) and is a member of the Public Schools Association and the Junior School Heads Association of Australia. CBC Perth was founded in 1894, located in the centre of Perth, it was one of the first boarding schools in Western Australia. In 1937, it was decided that a more suitable location was needed to cater for boarding students; Aquinas opened in the following year.

The college is located on a 62-hectare (150-acre) campus, with 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) of water frontage on the Canning River. The campus consists of a high school for Years 8–12 and a junior school for Years 4–7, sporting grounds, and boarding facilities for 210 students. Aquinas College has an eight-house system in both junior and senior school. Each house is named in honour of individuals who have had an association with the school. Aquinas has had many athletes among its alumni, including inaugural Fremantle Football Club captain Ben Allan, Brownlow medallist Simon Black and eight-time olympian Tom Hoad.

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Arlington Senior High School is a public high school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school enrolls 1,825 students in grades 9-12 and has the capacity to enroll 2,000. Arlington opened on September 3, 1996 as the newest high school for the Saint Paul Public School district. The school was the first high school to be built since Humboldt Senior High School in 1976. Arlington is the only high school in Saint Paul with no attendance boundaries and enrolls students from throughout the city. Often the school is used to reassign students who could not be enrolled into other high schools.

Arlington uses a teaching program called "Small Learning Communities" that separates particular student interests into different areas of the school. Freshmen and sophomores are separated into "houses" of smaller learning groups. Upper classmen follow specified career paths. Arlington offers language classes in French, Spanish and Arabic. The school also participates in the University of Minnesota's College in the Schools program, and offers several Advanced Placement classes. Starting in the 2009-2009 school year, the school's main educational focus will be a program dubbed "Bio-SMART". The program will emphasize bioscience and the use of technology in health care.

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Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, United States, enrolling 1,152 students in grades 10–12. It is the only high school in the Auburn City School District. Auburn High offers technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs, as well as joint enrollment with Southern Union State Community College and Auburn University. Founded in 1837, Auburn High School is the oldest public secondary school in Alabama, and is the third-oldest extant public high school in the United States south of Philadelphia.

Auburn High was ranked the 77th best public high school overall and 28th best non-magnet public high school in the United States by Newsweek in May 2006, and the second best educational value in the Southeastern United States by SchoolMatch, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. On average, seven Auburn High students earn National Merit Finalist status each year, and, in 2006, 92 students were named AP Scholars by the College Board. Auburn High's varsity sporting teams have won 34 team state championships, and the Auburn High School Band has been rated one of the top high school concert band programs in the United States, winning the John Philip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Flag of Honor in 1987.

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Balboa High School, colloquially known as Bal, is an American public high school located in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Balboa serves grades nine through twelve as part of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Balboa is a comprehensive school located in an urban working class district. It historically educates a greater proportion of the city's disadvantaged and minority students relative to other city high schools. Mirroring conditions in the areas it serves, the school has a history marked by periods of violence, controversy, and low academic performance.

The school motto is "First on the Pacific". The campus is the first and only historic landmark school in the district and the only one operating in the city. Following the dismissal of the entire faculty in 1999, it became the first school in Northern California to embrace and convert its curriculum to the concept of small learning communities. It was the first in California to start a school-based student health clinic. In response to the AIDS pandemic, it was the first school in California to distribute free condoms to students. In the last decade, Balboa has experienced a turnaround and has improved its reputation and academic performance.

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Benjamin Franklin High School is a public magnet high school in New Orleans. The school was founded in 1957 and moved to its current location in 1990. Ben Franklin is adjacent to the campus of the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the Lakeview district of Orleans Parish, near Lake Pontchartrain. Like the southern buildings of UNO and most of the schools in Orleans Parish, Ben Franklin suffered several feet of flood damage from Hurricane Katrina. The school was closed before the storm hit on August 29, 2005, and remained closed for several months. School administration, faculty, parents, students, alumni, and volunteers participated in a massive cleanup effort, without funding from and independent of the Orleans Parish School Board.

Ben Franklin has a selective admissions process and is known for the academic performance of its students. The school has been named a Blue Ribbon School twice by the U.S. Department of Education, and according to Newsweek is the highest-ranked secondary school in the state of Louisiana both before and after Katrina. In 2007, Ben Franklin was listed as one of 21 "public elite" schools on Newsweek's "Best High Schools in America" list. The class of 2008 produced 17 National Achievement semifinalists, the most of any school in the United States.

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Broad Run High School is a public secondary school in Ashburn, an unincorporated area in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and is part of the Loudoun County Public Schools system (LCPS). Of the county's ten public high schools, Broad Run (BRHS) has experienced the most change in both its physical and demographic environments during its nearly four decades of existence. Originally a rural school serving all of eastern Loudoun County, the explosive growth of the county's population beginning in the mid-1990s has resulted in systematic reduction of Broad Run's attendance area as it spun off six of the district's high schools from within its original boundaries.

Nicknamed “Cornfield High” when it opened, Broad Run’s facilities, academic and extracurricular environments have always been challenged by its location in one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. Since 1969, the county population has increased nearly seven-fold (most of it in the east), straining education budgets, infrastructure and local politics. For Ashburn, this has resulted in constantly shifting attendance boundaries as new school after new school is opened every year, at all levels, elementary, middle and high.

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Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school by the Reverend Joseph Henry Davies, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later. The school amalgamated with Malvern Memorial Grammar School (MMGS) in 1961, with the MMGS campus becoming Malvern Campus.

Caulfield has three day campuses in Victoria, Caulfield (Years 7–12), Wheelers Hill (Kindergarten–Year 12), and Malvern House (Kindergarten–Year 6). It has an outdoor education campus at Yarra Junction, and a student centre in Nanjing, China where the Year 9 internationalism programme is conducted. The Nanjing Campus became the first overseas campus for an Australian high school, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard and then-Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett both sent formal congratulations letters to Caulfield on the campus' establishment. Caulfield is the only Melbourne-based APS school to provide boarding for both boys and girls, with 95 boarding students, and is one of the largest school's in Victoria, currently catering for approximately 2,850 students.

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Gordon Parks High School is a public alternative learning center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school, founded in 1991, was originally called the Saint Paul Area Learning Center. The school was named Unidale Alternative Learning Center for several years, after the local strip mall it operated in; this was often shortened to ALC Unidale. In 2007, a permanent building was built for the school and it was renamed. The school is the largest of seven alternative day school programs that are run by the Saint Paul Public Schools district.

Gordon Parks serves students aged between 16-21. Students who enroll must qualify under one or more "at-risk" categories. These include homelessness, pregnancy, children and chemical dependency, as well as being at least one year behind for graduation or having any other characteristic that would place a student at a disadvantage. In the 2006-2007 school year roughly 279 students attended Gordon Parks High School. Sixty-two percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, which is the school district's measures of poverty. Eight percent of students qualify for special education. The school has a closed campus, although exceptions are granted for students who are in job programs, or must take care of their family.

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Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District (HEB ISD) is a K-12 public school district based in Bedford, Texas (USA). The district serves the city of Bedford, most of the cities of Euless and Hurst, and small parts of North Richland Hills, Colleyville, Fort Worth, and Arlington. The district operates nineteen elementary schools, five junior high schools, and two high schools. HEB ISD offers "Edge" programs, which provide unique opportunities for students to develop skills beyond standard primary and secondary school curriculum.

The district has been named one of the top four districts in the state and recognized for achievements in academics and student performance, music education, public relations practices, operating efficiency, and teacher salaries. Both of HEB ISD's high schools are ranked on Newsweek's 2007 list of the top 1,200 high schools in the country: L.D. Bell High School is listed 210th (4th highest in Tarrant County) and Trinity High School is listed 304th (6th highest in Tarrant County). In March 2005, the District received the Lone Star Award for best public relations practices in the state from the Texas Public Relations Association, recognizing outstanding ethics and business operations when communicating with stakeholders.

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Lane Technical College Preparatory High School (also known as Lane Tech), is a public, four-year, magnet high school located on the north side of Chicago. The school is named after Albert Grannis Lane, a former principal and superintendent. Lane was founded in 1908 and dedicated in 1909 as the Albert Grannis Lane Manual Training High School, and is one of the oldest schools in the city. Lane has an enrollment of over four thousand students and is a selective-enrollment-based school in which students must take a test and pass a certain benchmark in order to be offered admission. As a result of consistent victories in the fields of sports and academics, the school is known as the "School of Champions". Lane has also produced more Ph.D. holders than any other high school in the country.

Since Lane is one of several selective enrollment schools in Chicago, most students have to commute to Lane. As a result, Lane is a diverse school with many of its students coming from different ethnicities and economic backgrounds which helps enrich the school's student body. To celebrate the school's diversity, Lane hosts dozens of ethnic clubs which help students learn more about other cultures as well as prepare for the International Days festivities.

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Lubbock High School (formerly known as Tom S. Lubbock High School and colloquially known as LHS) is a 5A high school serving grades nine to twelve in Lubbock, Texas (USA). It was named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a Confederate Colonel and Texas Ranger. Part of the Lubbock Independent School District, the school is known for its academic program and for the fact that it has produced a number of talented musicians and vocalists over the years (including Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Natalie Maines, Ralna English, and Mac Davis).

The school was founded in 1891 and was the first high school in Lubbock County. In the fall of 1929, plans began for the construction of a new building for LHS. Construction began in 1930, and the building was completed in 1931. The school opened in its new location for the fall semester of 1931. Due to its distinctive architecture, the school is included in the National Register of Historic Places. Lubbock High's colors are black and gold and its mascot is the Westerner. The school primarily serves students from the central and eastern parts of Lubbock, but the school's LEAP program serves students from all over the city.

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North Community High School, or simply Minneapolis North, is a public, four-year high school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has existed for over 120 years in several buildings all located on the North Side of Minneapolis. North once had a predominately Jewish student body but by 1982, the school and the neighborhood it is located in had become mostly black. Desegregation efforts, such as magnet school programs, have attempted to attract students from throughout Minneapolis and nearby suburbs. The neighborhood that North is located in is known for high levels of poverty and crime.

In recent years the school has been known for its highly successful boys' and girls' basketball programs. Both teams have had numerous state tournament appearances and state championship titles. North offers several college preparatory classes and operates, Minneapolis Public Schools' radio station, KBEM-FM. The school has often struggled academically in terms of graduation rate and state standardized tests. The school's low academic performance has led to the school being labeled a "dropout factory" and suggestions by a Minneapolis City Council member to burn the school down.

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Stonyhurst College is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition, providing boarding and day education to approximately four hundred boys and girls aged 13-18. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire, England, where it occupies a Grade I listed building. Founded in 1593, it was originally located at St Omer in the Spanish Netherlands, at a time when penal laws prohibited Roman Catholic education in England. Due to the persecution of the Jesuits, the school was forced to relocate to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773. In 1794, following a relaxation of the law in England, the school finally settled in Lancashire.

Under the motto Quant Je Puis (As Much As I Can), Stonyhurst offers a broad curriculum of study, music, art, drama, sport and CCF, together with spiritual guidance and charity work. Notable alumni include three saints, twelve Beati, twenty-two martyrs, eight archbishops, seven Victoria Cross winners, fourteen international rugby players, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Eduardo Lopez de Romaña. The school is also home to a number of treasures including a fragment from the crown of thorns and the remains of St Gordianus.

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The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC Sydney) is an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for girls in Croydon, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, Australia. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy for all years but Year 11, and caters for approximately 1,350 girls from age four (Branxton Reception) to age eighteen (Year 12), including 65 boarders. Students attend PLC from all regions of the greater metropolitan area, New South Wales, and overseas.

Established in 1888 by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of NSW, PLC is the oldest continuously running Presbyterian Church school in its state. The college is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools and is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, and the Junior School Heads Association of Australia. PLC is one of two Sydney schools in the Round Square organization. In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked PLC Sydney fourth in Australia's top ten girls' schools, based on the number of alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians). Notable alumni include the first qualified female architect in Australia and other pioneering women in education, law, and medicine.

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The Preuss School (commonly Preuss (IPA:/pɻoːyːs/), Preuss School UCSD, or Preuss Model School) is a coeducational college-preparatory charter day school established in 1999 on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus in La Jolla, California, United States. The school was named in recognition of a gift from the Preuss Family Foundation and is chartered under the San Diego Unified School District.

Preuss uses an intensive college preparatory curriculum to educate low-income students between sixth and twelfth grades, hoping to improve their historical under-representation on the campuses of the University of California. Criteria for admission include that the student's primary guardian lacks a college education and that the student's family qualifies for federal free- or reduced-price lunches under the National School Lunch Act. The school, which charges no tuition, has received a seven-year accreditation from the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. It has been evaluated as a California Distinguished School, has been named by The Center of Educational Reform as one of the top 53 charter schools in America, and in 2007 was listed among the top 10 American public high schools by Newsweek and US News and World Report.

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Robert College of Istanbul (Turkish: Istanbul Amerikan Robert Lisesi), is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a 65-acre wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and the upscale Ulus district to the west. Founded in 1863 by Christopher Robert, a wealthy American and a philanthropist, and Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary devoted to education, the Institution is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside of the United States. This title is also claimed by the American College of Sofia, founded in 1860.

Robert College admits nearly 160-200 students each year, who have scored within the top two percentile in the Turkish national examination. It is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools, European Council of International Schools, Council of International Schools and International Baccalaureate Organization. Robert College has a long list of notable alumni, including entrepreneurs, political leaders, journalists, artists and one Nobel Prize recipient, Orhan Pamuk. The School is a member of the G20 Schools group.

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Scotch College (informally known as Scotch or SC) is an independent school for boys, situated in Swanbourne, Western Australia, Australia. The school is a member of the Public Schools Association (PSA) and is now a Uniting Church school, although it was founded in 1897 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Scotch College owes its foundations to Mrs. Jane Alexander, wife of Hon. William Alexander, MLC, who complained that there was an absence of a Presbyterian school for boys in Perth. She offered Rev. David Ross, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia, £500 to establish Scotch College.

Scotch has a large campus in Swanbourne and an outdoor education centre in Dwellingup. The campus in Swanbourne consists of a high school for Years 8 to 12, a junior school for Pre-Primary to Grade 7, sports grounds, and boarding facilities for 140 students. Scotch offers a wide range of subjects in its academic curriculum. The school has undertaken the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years and Middle Years programmes since 2003. All students in Years 8 to 10 study one language other than English — either French or Indonesian — through the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme (MYP). Scotch also offers extracurricular activities in sport, music and the Arts.

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Westfield High School is a public secondary school in Chantilly, an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is a part of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), serving students from the communities including Chantilly and Centreville as well as areas with Herndon addresses in grades 9–12. Westfield opened in 2000 to help deal with the extensive overcrowding at adjacent schools, primarily Centreville and Chantilly High Schools. At 3,260 students, it is one of the largest four-year high schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is often criticized as grossly crowded.

The school was listed as the 46th best public high school in America by Newsweek magazine in 2002 and 27th in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area by The Washington Post in 2006 due to a high percentage of students enrolled in Westfield's Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Westfield shares a business partnership with Northrop Grumman's business IT group that entails sharing of buildings, as well as financial donations and gifts of supplies. It also shares an education partnership with Centreville Presbyterian Church to improve student achievement. Westfield has come under scrutiny because two unrelated murders perpetrated by alumni occurred within one year.

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Johnson Senior High School is a comprehensive high school for grades 9 to 12 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Originally named Cleveland High School, the school was renamed after Minnesota governor John A. Johnson in 1911. Johnson is the second oldest high school in the Saint Paul Public Schools district and is only surpassed in age by Central High School. The school has operated in three different buildings since 1897, all located on the East Side of Saint Paul. Johnson is the third largest high school in the district and enrolls 1647 students.

The school offers Advanced Placement classes as well as the University of Minnesota-affiliated College in the Schools program. In 2002 the school received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which led to the introduction of Small Learning Communities. Johnson offers over 40 extracurricular clubs and organizations including an Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFJROTC) unit, one of only three in the state. The school currently competes in the Saint Paul City Conference. The school's hockey team has had success, winning four state titles, but in the last decade has suffered from low participation. Alumni include ice hockey players and coaches including Herb Brooks, Wendell Anderson and Alana Blahoski.

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Port Charlotte High School (PCHS) is a four-year, comprehensive, public high school located in Port Charlotte, Florida, US. The school opened in 1982, its mascot is the pirate, and the school motto is "Yes, I am a Pirate." With 2,082 students enrolled in grades Grades 9 through 12, Port Charlotte High School has more students than any other public school in Charlotte County. Enrollment was traditionally based on students' geographic locations, but is now by choice under the more recently created open enrollment program. The school's main feeders are Murdock Middle School, Port Charlotte Middle School, and Punta Gorda Middle School. The school has grown much in its twenty-five years of existence, and it survived Hurricane Charley.

PCHS has high academic standards, and is known for its performance in extracurricular activities. The Model United Nations team at PCHS has been recognized for its performance. The school's top athletic rivals are Charlotte High School and Lemon Bay High School. PCHS has educated two NFL players and one major league baseball player who also performed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2008, despite the band's outstanding record, one of its former instructors was accused of sexual battery and later killed himself.

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The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) is a co-educational residential further education college based in the English city of Hereford. It was established in 1871 by the philanthropist Thomas Rhodes Armitage and the American anti-slavery campaigner Francis Joseph Campbell, who lost his sight as a young boy. Founded in London as The Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind, the college had a number of homes before moving to its present campus in Hereford.

RNC is regarded as a leader in the education of visually impaired students. Following an Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills inspection in 2005 RNC was one of only eight colleges in the United Kingdom to be awarded the prestigious Beacon Status in recognition of the outstanding quality of its teaching. Alongside regular further education subjects and vocational training, the college offers training in independent living and personal development. The college has also been actively involved in the development and use of assistive technology to aid visually impaired people in their everyday lives. There are approximately 200 students whose ages range from 16 upwards. The college is a registered charity, its current Patron being Charles, Prince of Wales, and it is the home of the England blind football team.

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Roswell High School (RHS) is a public high school in Roswell, Georgia, U.S.A. that opened in 1949. Like the city of Roswell, the school bears the name of Roswell King. King founded the cotton mill that would eventually be the economic backbone of Roswell for much of its early history. The school serves the entire city of Roswell west of Georgia 400 and the city of Mountain Park. It also serves small portions of Alpharetta and Milton. With a population of over of 2,436 students in the 2007–2008 school year, RHS is one of the largest schools in the Fulton County School System. It is the second oldest of Fulton County's schools in the northern portion of the county opening between Milton High School, (1921) and Chattahoochee High School (1991). Roswell is currently on its third campus which opened in 1990.

Roswell's standardized testing scores have exceeded the national and state averages and it has been named a national and Georgia school of excellence. For the 2005–2006 school year, Roswell's average SAT score was 1663 with the new SAT scoring system, which ranked Roswell third in the Fulton County School System and sixth in Metro Atlanta. The school offers students many extracurricular activities, including a variety of clubs. Students also have the option to compete in 16 different sports comprising 23 varsity level teams. Seven of the Roswell Hornet teams have won state championships, totaling 19 overall.

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DuPont Manual High School is a secondary school located in the Old Louisville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky and serving students in grades 9–12. It is a part of the Jefferson County Public School District. Manual opened in 1892 as an all-male manual training school. It was the second public high school in Louisville. Manual merged with Louisville Girls High School in 1950 and moved into their Gothic style three story building, built in 1934. As a coeducation school, Manual experienced a decline in discipline and test scores in the 1970s.

In 1984, Manual became a magnet school, allowing students from throughout the district to apply to five specialized programs of study, or magnets. Its magnet programs include the Youth Performing Arts School (YPAS), one of two programs in Kentucky allowing high school students to major in performing arts. In 1991, the U.S. Department of Education recognized Manual as a National School of Excellence. In 2004, after conducting a poll, Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper listed Manual as one of Louisville residents' ten favorite buildings. Manual and Male High School have the oldest football rivalry in the state, dating back to 1893. Manual's football team has won five state titles and claims two national championships. In the 1980s and 1990s Manual became a prominent academic school and has been included several times in lists of America's top high schools in Redbook and Newsweek magazines.

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The City of London School (CLS) is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls (a girls' school within the City) and of the co-educational City of London Freemen's School (a day and boarding school in Surrey). It is also a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

The School was founded by a private Act of Parliament in 1834, following events starting from a bequest of land by John Carpenter, Town Clerk of London in 1442, for four poor children in the City of London. The original school was established at Milk Street, with the school moving to the Victoria Embankment in 1879, and then to its present site on Queen Victoria Street in 1986. Today, the school provides day education to about 900 boys aged 10 to 18 and employs approximately 100 teaching staff and around another 100 non-teaching staff including contractors. The majority of its pupils enter at age 11 into the first form, with somewhat fewer at age 13 into the third form and some at age 16 into the Sixth form. There is a small intake at age 10 into Old Grammar, a year group consisting of only one class equivalent to primary school Year 6. Admissions are based on an entrance examination and an interview. Alumni, or "Old Citizens" of note include Liberal Prime Minister (1908-1916) H. H. Asquith, writer Kingsley Amis, lawyer Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon and physicist Peter Higgs.

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Amador Valley High School is a public high school in Pleasanton, California, USA, a city east of San Francisco. Amador Valley is one of four high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, which includes Foothill High School, Village High School, and Horizon High School. The school was founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School, from which its first class graduated in 1923. The school has been named a California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a National Blue Ribbon School.

As of 2009, Amador Valley offers its 2,500 students 23 varsity sports, 20 Advanced Placement courses, a program to study local aquatic wildlife, and vocational training. Amador's location allows it to be the launching point for parades and to host the site of the Amador Theater, Pleasanton's central performing arts facility for more than 60 years. In national competitions such as We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, the Amador Valley team has ranked in the top four places from 2006 to 2009. Similarly, the Amador Valley Robotics Team is recognized nationally as the only high school team in the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) competition hosted by Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).

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Wisbech Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Wisbech, in the English county of Cambridgeshire for students ages 11 to 18. Founded by the Wisbech Guild of the Holy Trinity in 1379, it is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. Chartered by Edward VI in 1549 as a grammar school for boys, for much of its history it offered a largely classical curriculum of Greek, Latin and arithmetic under the governance of the Wisbech Corporation. The school has moved premises several times since its foundation, being based in St Peter's Church, the old guildhall in Hill Street and on South Brink before merging with the Wisbech High School for Girls in 1970 at their present site on North Brink.

For much of the 20th century, it was a non-fee paying voluntary aided school, but following local council plans to remove this status and merge the Grammar School with a nearby secondary modern school, the governors took the decision to become fully independent in 1983. Now a fee-paying day school, 650 pupils ages 4 to 18 attend from the three counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire. The present headmaster is N.J.G. Hammond, a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Entry to the senior school at age 11 is based on a competitive examination. Pupils are also admitted at later stages, including sixth form. Former pupils are known as "Old Grammarians", and the school has produced a number of famous alumni.

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