Monarch High School (Florida)

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Monarch High School
Location
5050 Wiles Road
Coconut Creek, FL 33442
Information
School district Broward County Public Schools
Principal Anne Dilgen
Staff 175+
Enrollment

2206 (07-08)
Type Public high school
Grades 9-12
Athletics conference 5A- District 15
Mascot Knight
Color(s) Black, Red, Silver
Established 2003
Information (754) 321-1400
Homepage http://monarchknights.com
This article is about a high school in Florida. For a high school in Colorado, see Monarch High School (Colorado) .

Monarch High School located in Coconut Creek, Florida, USA is a high school that is part of the Broward County Public Schools system. The Principal is Anne Dilgen and Assistant Principals include: Marcus Caceras, Will Hendricks, Scott Jarvis, James Klemke and Moira Sweeting.

Currently, MHS has a FCAT school grade of a "C" for the 2006-2007 school year.[1]



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[edit] Knights Code of Chivalry

The school emphasizes a code of conduct among students, teachers, faculty and peers dubbed the "Knights Code of Chivalry." The code was created by a student panel the year before the school opened. Plaques containing the code are present in every classroom and the code is placed on the back of every students ID badge.

  • Responsibility
  • Citizenship
  • Kindness
  • Respect
  • Honesty
  • Self-Control
  • Tolerance
  • Cooperation


[edit] Physical Facilities

The pair of buildings that make up the school were designed by the Miami architectural firm Zyscovitch on a design/build basis. Part of one building can be used as a hurricane shelter if necessary and the project is designed to enable community use of the facilities when not being used by the school.[2]

During the school's second academic year, an additional building, Building 5, was constructed to relieve "critical overcrowding" and meet class size requirements. The school also has a number of portable classrooms.


[edit] Pinwheels for Peace

A program started by two teachers at Monarch High, the Pinwheels for Peace Project invites students to create and display their pinwheels on the campus during the International Day of Peace and has been adopted internationally.[3] Groups in more than 1,500 places have planted more than half a million pinwheels throughout the world.[4]

[edit] Digital Learning Environment

The school provides each student with a laptop computer to use in their classes, as part of a program to enhance accessibility to data on the internet, as well as students' knowledge of technology. Monarch High is usually referred to as a Digital Learning Environment (DLE).

At the beginning of the DLE program, in the school's second academic year (2004-2005), students were provided with a laptop that could be taken home and brought back with them to school on a regular basis to further enhance the program. This element was withdrawn after three years because of budget cuts, the expense of computer repairs and maintenance and because of misuse, vandalism and stolen/ lost computers.[5]

[edit] Clubs and Sports

Monarch High offers numerous after school extracurricular activities, including several successful sports programs, arts organizations, and high school mainstays such as Key Club and the National Honor Society. [6]

[edit] List of After-School Clubs

[edit] Sports

[edit] Boys'

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Soccer
  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Track
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling

[edit] Girls'

  • Basketball
  • Cheerleading
  • Cross Country
  • Flag Football
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Track
  • Volleyball

[edit] References

  1. ^ FCAT School Grades - High
  2. ^ "Monarch High School", Learning by Design 2004, American School Board Journal
  3. ^ "Pinwheels for Peace", Education World, August 9, 2005
  4. ^ "No place for Pinwheels for Peace", Patty McCormac, Valley News, January 9, 2006
  5. ^ "Digital Learning Environment", Monarch High School
  6. ^ "Monarch High Clubs and Activities", Monarch High School

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