West Boca Raton Community High School is an unaccredited public high school in an unincorporated area west of Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about...

. The school is part of the School District of Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County is the largest county in the state of Florida in total area, and third in population. As of 2010, the county's estimated population was 1,320,134, making it the twenty-eighth most populous in the United States...

 and is zoned for the far western area of Boca Raton, with students from any part of the Palm Beach County School District able to enroll if they are accepted into at least one academy. Its curriculum includes a set of magnet programs

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...

, or academies, available to all students who qualify. Academies offered at West Boca High include Medical Science, Information Technology, Drafting and Design, and Culinary Arts.

School rating

West Boca High earned an "A" rating from the State of Florida Department of Education for each of its first two school years. In 2006, the then-school principal Francis P. Giblin received a commendation from state Governor Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush

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and Commissioner of Education John Winn, honoring the school as one of the top fifty high-performing high schools in the state of Florida.

2006–2007

Despite having previously earned "A" ratings, during the 2006–2007 school year West Boca High earned a "B" from the State of Florida Department of Education.
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2008–2009

West Boca High received an "A" rating for the 2008–2009 school year. This grade was met with 64% of students getting high standards in reading, 91% in Math, 93% in Writing, and 60% in Science.

Student schedule

The school follows a block schedule composed of three alternating types of days. Students go to their fifth-hour class every day and attend their even classes on "even" days, odd classes on "odd" days and each of their seven classes on "regular" days.
Classes begin at 7:30 AM and end at 2:50 PM. Once about every two weeks the school has a late start day, where students arrive at 10:30 AM.

Teachers

West Boca Raton High has 19 students per teacher, which is higher than the state average. Most faculty members have an average of 9 years experience in teaching.

External links

• West Boca High Theater
• School's Official Website
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lhm6QT14mY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL