Barbara Goleman Senior High School is a secondary school

Secondary school

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 located at 14100 NW 89th Ave in Miami Lakes, Florida

Miami Lakes, Florida

Miami Lakes is a Miami suburban incorporated town and former census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 22,676 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S...

,; its principal is Mr. Carlos Artime. Goleman pertains to Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Miami-Dade County Public Schools is a public school district serving Miami-Dade County, Florida. Founded in 1885, it is the largest school district in Florida and the Southeastern United States, and the fourth largest in the United States, with a student enrollment of 380,006 as of July 5, 2010...

 Region I, and is school number 7751.

The school is named after Barbara Goleman

Barbara Goleman

Barbara Ann Goleman is an American secondary-school teacher of English literature and winner of the 1969 National Teacher of the Year award.-Biography:...

, the 1969 National Teacher of the Year

National Teacher of the Year

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 and the only Miami-Dade County Public School teacher to ever receive this title.

Due to the construction of a new senior high school named Hialeah Gardens High School

Hialeah Gardens High School

Hialeah Gardens High School is a secondary school in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, United States which opened on August 2009. It is part of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools system. Due to unforeseen construction delays, the student body was divided between the Goleman campus and the Hialeah...

 (located in nearby Hialeah Gardens), Barbara Goleman welcomed to-be-sophomores from American Senior High for the 2008-2009 school year, replacing a portion of the class of 2011 which was transferred to the new school.
The schools doors opened to its founding group of students on August 28, 1995.