| Cooper City High School | |
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| 9401 Stirling Road Cooper City, Florida, United States |
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| Motto | "Home of the Cowboys" |
| Established | September 1971 |
| Principal | Wendy Doll |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,526 (2005–2006) |
| Average class size | 22 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Red Black White |
| Mascot | Lasso Larry (formerly Pistol Pete) |
| Website | http://www.coopercityhigh.net/ |
Cooper City High School is a high 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 2,400 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 because 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]
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The school, built in 1971, is aging, but is still capable of holding all of the students that occupy it every day. A new 36-classroom building opened during the 2007–2008 school year. This building was followed by a new cafeteria which opened in May during the 2009–2010 school year.
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).
Cooper City has earned distinctions in its Swimming, Wrestling, Water Polo, Baseball, Volleyball and Cheerleading Programs. Softball team has also won Districts, Regionals, and States in 2009. In the 2010 football season, Cooper City won districts for the first time in the schools history, and for a second time in 2011, Beating former national champion, St.Thomas, for the first time since 1972 in a 21-16 victory .
On May 26, 1993 two Cooper City High school girls were arrested on prostitution charges, giving the school the nickname "Hooker High".[6]
In 2002, a group of Seniors bought an advertisement in the back of the yearbooks to slander the principal at the time, Mr. Vanover . This ad was written in an obvious code, yet slipped by the Yearbook staff and went into print. The code was eventually noticed and covered in all yearbooks sold after the fact.
In 2006, the Senior Class President was charged with hacking into the grade submission site and changing grades for himself and other students.[7]
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