Coconut Creek High School is a public high school located in Coconut Creek, Florida

Coconut Creek, Florida

Coconut Creek is a city in Broward County, Florida , nestled between Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. It had a population of 52,909 at the 2010 census...

 located in Broward County, Florida

Broward County, Florida

-2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,623,018 people, 654,445 households, and 411,645 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,346 people per square mile . There were 741,043 housing units at an average density of 615 per square mile...

. It is part of the Broward School District

Broward School District

Broward County Public Schools, a public school district serving Broward County, Florida, is the nation's sixth largest public school system and the largest fully accredited district in the nation, with over 260,000 students in more than 260 schools and education centers...

.

Creek has an FCAT

Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test

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 school grade of "D" for the 2010-2011 academic year.

History

Coconut Creek High School is a public school in the city of Coconut Creek, Florida. The school is also affectionately known as Cougar Country.
The Cougars pride themselves on having not just an outstanding athletic department, but an award winning Journalism team (The Harbinger), Superior Theater Arts department, and Scholastic Arts department that has drawn international attention due to aspiring artist Meynardo Garcia's deportation battle.

Year after year Coconut Creek tries to improve on everything. This academic year Coconut Creek is facing many changes from a new principle to the amount of enrollment decreasing. Being that the school failed to improve for several years now, over 300 students enrolled into a new school through the AYP program.

Principal

The 2008 academic school year commenced with the appointment of a new/returning principal, David Jones, by Broward Schools Superintendent Jim Notter. Jones hails from "A" rated Coral Glades High School

Coral Glades High School

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 which opened in 2003 with Jones at its helm. Jones led Glades to its first "A" in the 2007 - 2008 school year. At the beginning of the 2011-12 school year Jones was replace by Scott Fiske, and also two assistant principal Kenneth May and Missy Jones were replace by Steve Carruth and Gina Montagnino.

Student schedule

Coconut Creek High School students presently attend school from 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM, Monday through Friday on a seven period schedule. The current schedule requires students to attend Seven 51 minute classes each day with a 5 minute passing period between each class.

Sport and clubs

Coconut Creek offers a wide variety of different sports and clubs to join during the school year.

Sports

Cheerleading,
Football team,
Basketball team,
Soccer Team,
Swimming Team,
Volleyball Team,
Flag Football Team,
Cross Country Team,
Golf,
Track&Field,
Baseball,
Softball,
Tennis Team,
Marching Band.

Clubs

Drama Club,
Chorus Club,
Anime Club,
French Club,
Thespians Club,
Cappis,
First Priority ,
Cougar Pals,
Gay Straight Alliance,
Student Government,
Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD),
Spanish Club,
German Club,
JROTC,
Jazz Band,
Symphonic Band,
Key Club,
National Honor Society

Demographics

As of 2011, the total student enrollment was 1,640. The ethnic makeup

Ethnic group

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 of the school was 12% White

White people

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, 70% Black

Black people

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, 14% Hispanic

Hispanic

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, 2% Asian

Asian people

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 or Pacific Islander

Pacific Islander

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, 1% Multiracial

Multiracial

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, and 1% Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 or Native Alaskan.

Notable alumni

• Danny Rubino MVP of the 2008 Over 40 mens softball national champions
• Bobby Cannavale - Filmography: Cupid, Third Watch, Ally McBeal, Will and Grace,the Other Guys(2010), Paul Blart. (Class of 1987)
• Joe Lo Truglio
  Joe Lo Truglio
  Joseph "Joe" Lo Truglio is an American actor, writer and comedian best known for his work as a cast member on the cult MTV sketch comedy series The State...
  
   star of MTV's sketch comedy show The State (TV series)
  The State (TV series)
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  , co-starred in Superbad
  Superbad
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• John D'Aquino
  John D'Aquino
  John D'Aquino is a Canadian-American actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Benjamin Krieg in the NBC TV series seaQuest DSV during the show's first season, a role he later reprised in the third season and President Richard Martinez in the Disney Channel Original Series Cory in the...
  
   (from seaQuest DSV
  SeaQuest DSV
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  as Lt. Benjamin Kreig and Cory in the House
  Cory in the House
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  as President Martinez) graduated from Coconut Creek High School in 1976. John has also been cast and appeared in several other television series and movies.
• Dave Thomas
  Dave Thomas (American businessman)
  David "Dave" Thomas was an American fast-food entrepreneur and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers...
  
   (founder of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers
  Wendy's
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   restaurants) received his GED from Coconut Creek High School in 1993.
• Mat Latos
  Mat Latos
  Mathew Adam "Mat" Latos is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres.-High school and college:...
  
   (Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres
  San Diego Padres
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  )
• Lanny Poffo
  Lanny Poffo
  Lanny Mark Poffo , better known by his ring name "Leaping" Lanny is an American professional wrestler. Poffo was born in Calgary, Canada, to Angelo Poffo, an Italian American Catholic, and Judy, a Jewish American. He is also the brother of wrestling legend "Macho Man" Randy Savage...
  
  (famous WWE wrestler graduated in 1972)

External links

• Coconut Creek High School official site