Sebastian River High School

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Sebastian River High School

Name

Sebastian River High School

Address

9001 90th Ave

Town

Sebastian, Florida, 32958

Established

1994

Community

Suburban

Type

Public Secondary

Religion

Secular

Students

Coeducational

Grades

9th to 12th

District

Indian River County

Mascot

Sharks

Colors

Silver and Blue

Magazine

Inlet Magazine

Sebastian River High School is a co-educational International Baccalaureate high school. It opened August 1994 and was ranked 304th by Newsweek's 1,000 top U.S. High schools.

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Sebastian River High School is based around a central courtyard. Its facilities include a 3,750 seat sports stadium, a 1,100 seat auditorium, a 1,200 seat gymnasium, a state of the art TV studio, a 6 ½ acre land and aqua lab, high tech vocational labs, a football field, three practice fields, two baseball diamonds, four tennis courts, four basketball hard courts,a wrestling room, and a cross country course. As of 2002, a new Freshman Wing was added, bringing the number of classrooms to over 140, making it one of the largest schools in Indian River County. It is also home of the Sebastian River High School Marching Sharks who were named the Grand Champions at the Peach Bowl in 2005. The marching band also won several Crown Jewel competitions in Vero Beach and the Battle on The Border in Valdosta, Georgia in 2006. Their Chorus has received 14/15 Superiors at State.

SRHS also holds a Prism Concert in their auditorium every year. The students from Band, Chorus, and Flags perform to over 6,000 people in a week. The concert is visited by many from around the world, including Japan and Sweden.