Palm Bay Senior High School
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| Motto | To educate and inspire students for the challenges of today and tomorrow. |
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| Established | 1958 |
| Type of institution | Public |
| Principal | John G. Thomas |
| Students | Grades 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2604 |
| Location | Melbourne, Florida, United States |
| Colors | Silver, Black, Red |
| Mascot | Pirate |
| Information | (321) 952-5900 |
| Website | http://www.pirate.brevard.k12.fl.us/index.php |
| Data from 2004-05 NCLB School Public Accountability Reports | |
Palm Bay Senior High School is a public high school located in Melbourne, Florida, several thousand feet north of the boundary of Palm Bay, Florida. It is part of the Brevard County School District.
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[edit] Layout
The campus consists of a small number of "portable" classrooms and several brick-and-mortar buildings, many of which are interconnected by additional upstairs hallways (most of which are uncovered), and most of which have two stories; the campus is not an "indoor" campus, in that all hallways are open to the air and lockers are outdoors.
[edit] History
The school originally opened as Southwest Junior High School in the 1950s, in an area near the future site of the Florida Institute of Technology and a historically black neighborhood in the southern side of Melbourne. At the time, Stone Middle School was serving as a school for people of color in the area, serving multiple grades. As desegregation progressed, the schools were re-purposed in 1976: Stone became a middle school, and Southwest became Palm Bay Senior High. Southwest Junior High was reconstituted within Palm Bay in 1988.
[edit] Football
The school is noted for its successful football team, the Palm Bay Pirates, which won the title of "State Champions" in 2000 and 2002. Coincidentally, coach Dan Burke had previously been at the modern-era Southwest Junior High School. The school is also known for being one of the first high schools in the state of Florida to have an artificial football field.
[edit] Academia
The school is noted for being one of the several "A" schools in the county, for multiple years in a row. During the 2004-2005 school year, it also received a considerable donation, which it used to expand the school library and, within the same building (which was afterwards renamed to reflect the benefactors and law studies-oriented nature of the building), create more classrooms, which were primarily intended for classes in Criminology, law, forensics and other social sciences. The building, like most of the campus, has two stories, and includes rooms modeled after American courtrooms in which some of the school's law classes perform mock trials.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Xavier Carter - Professional Track and Field Athlete
