First Colonial High School
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First Colonial High School is a high school
in Virginia Beach, Virginia
. First Colonial opened in 1966 by splitting students out of the former Virginia Beach High School. Virginia Beach High then became Virginia Beach Middle School. James C. Mounie was the first principal of the new high school. First Colonial's mascot is the Patriot.
First Colonial runs a magnet program
called the Legal Studies Academy, created to offer students a way to explore employment in the legal field. The school also has a joint Navy
JROTC program with Cox High School
, its traditional rival for First Colonial in sporting events and competitions.
First Colonial is one of five Virginia Beach high schools ranked in the top 1200 in Newsweek's 2006 ranking of American high schools.
First Colonial is one of three public Virginia Beach high schools to have a club-level crew
team. The First Colonial Crew Club competes in regional, state and national regattas.
Athletic teams include Track, Boys and Girls Soccer teams, Baseball, Softball, Boys and Girls Volleyball, and Field Hockey.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay...
. First Colonial opened in 1966 by splitting students out of the former Virginia Beach High School. Virginia Beach High then became Virginia Beach Middle School. James C. Mounie was the first principal of the new high school. First Colonial's mascot is the Patriot.
First Colonial runs a magnet program
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
called the Legal Studies Academy, created to offer students a way to explore employment in the legal field. The school also has a joint Navy
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
JROTC program with Cox High School
Frank W. Cox High School
Frank W. Cox High School is a secondary school located in the Great Neck subdivision of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was founded in 1961 as the Northeast Junior High School, but upon opening, it was named after a former superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools, Frank Woodard Cox, who...
, its traditional rival for First Colonial in sporting events and competitions.
First Colonial is one of five Virginia Beach high schools ranked in the top 1200 in Newsweek's 2006 ranking of American high schools.
First Colonial is one of three public Virginia Beach high schools to have a club-level crew
Crew
A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard...
team. The First Colonial Crew Club competes in regional, state and national regattas.
Athletic teams include Track, Boys and Girls Soccer teams, Baseball, Softball, Boys and Girls Volleyball, and Field Hockey.
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