Cooper City High School

Cooper City High School is a secondary school located in Cooper City, Florida which teaches grades 9-12.

The school includes standard high school curriculum plus specialized classes devoted to career development including auto tech and computer programming. It has an average enrollment of approximately 2,500 students. Since the 2004-2005 school year the school principal is Ms. Wendy Doll. The school colors are red, black, and white and the mascot is a cowboy named "Lasso Larry." "Pistol Pete," the former mascot, was deemed inappropriate due to the fact that he wields two handguns. The school has been awarded the Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award.^[1] Cooper City has an FCAT school grade of "B" for the 2008-2009 academic year.^[2]

Facilities

The school, built in 1971, is aging quickly and is no longer capable of holding all of the students that occupy it every day due to mold related health issues and the new 6,000 home development of Waldrep Dairy. A new 36-classroom building opened during the 2007-2008 school year. This building will be followed by a new cafeteria building, another 36-classroom building, an office building, and the destruction of the original buildings (in 2010).

Academics

The school is also well known for its extensive Advanced Placement program. Having 20 available Advanced Placement courses available to the students, the school creates a positive influence for students admitting into college, usually producing valedictorians with well over 10 AP credits simply from courses taken at the school (i.e., 12 credits excluding exams taken by the student independently of Cooper City High).

Athletics

Cooper City has earned distinctions in its Swimming, Water Polo, Baseball, Volleyball and Cheerleading Programs. Softball team has also won Districts, Regionals, and States in 2009.

Arts

The Marching Band program, named the Sound of Pride, ranks highly in state competitions. In the 2006 state competition, they placed 4th in their class. In the 2008 Florida Marching Band Championships, located in St. Petersburg, the Cooper City High Sound of Pride Marching Band placed first in the class 4A division. This was the first championship title for Cooper City High. The show title was "Outside The Box", and the band is currently(as of 2006) being directed by Christoper Schletter.

Notable alumni and staff

Alumni

Notable alumni of Cooper City High School include:

• Bobby Estalella, Major League Baseball catcher, ^[3]
• Olindo Mare, kicker for the Miami Dolphins football team since 1997. On April 4, 2007, Mare was traded from the Miami Dolphins to the New Orleans Saints for the Saints' 6th round pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.
• Keith Murray, Lead Singer of We Are Scientists; ^[4].
• Niki Taylor, model;
• Jeff Wagner, musician. Keyboard player with The Postmarks.^[5]

Clubs/Organizations

• Amnesty International
• Anime/Art Club
• Band
• Best Buddies
• Chess Club
• Chorus
• Colorguard
• Cowboys Against Cancer
• Cowboy Television (CTV)
• German Club
• German Honor Society
• DECA - for more info go to http://www.cchsdeca.org
• Debate Club
• DFYIT (Drug Free Youth In Town)
• FJAS (Florida Junior Academy of Sciences)
• FMPA (Future Medical Professionals of America)
• Infinite Club club.infinite.googlepages.com/
• Varsity Cross Country
• Varsity Ice Hockey
• JV Basketball
• Varsity Basketball
• JV Football
• Varsity Football
• Varsity Baseball

Troy Dupont

• Varsity Soccer
• Human Relations Council
• Key Club
• Math Club/Tutoring
• Multicultural club
• NHS (National Honor Society) - Chapter website: http://www.cchsnhs.com
• RSDA (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Awareness)
• SITE (Students Improving The Environment)
• Spanish Club
• Spanish National Honor Society
• Thespians / Drama Club
• The Adventurers Guild
• JSU (Jewish Student Union)
• Philosophical Discourse Society
• PAW (Promoting Animal Welfare)
• PRES Club (Promoting Reading in the Elementary Setting)
• VAFA (Voice Against Family Abuse)

Scandals

On May 26, 1993 two Cooper City High school girls were arrested on prostitution charges. ^[6]

On December 12, 2006 the president of the senior class, Ryan Shrouder, was arrested on two counts of a computer crime with intent to defraud. Shrouder allegedly illegally accessed Broward School District computers and gave himself and 19 classmates better grades. He was released from the Broward County Jail after posting $5,000 bond. ^[7]

In May 2007 a chlorine bomb was set off in an outdoor trashcan, upsetting faculty.^[8]

Murder

Cooper City High School first appeared on the national stage with the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent by a group of current and previous students. The murder resulted in a best selling crime book, "Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge", and a 2001 film, "Bully".

The story was also covered during an A&E Television crime special.

References

External links

• Cooper City High School website (redirects from www.broward.k12.fl.us/coopercityhigh/)
• Cooper City High School statistics provided by publicschoolreview.com
• Cooper City High School boundary map (PDF)
• Broward County Public Schools FCAT school grades (2002-2005)
• Cooper City High Freeservers
• CCHS Class of 1977