Dillard High School

Dillard High School
Address
2501 NW 11th St
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311-5796
United States
Information
Type Public, Magnet
Established 1907
School district Broward County Public Schools
Principal Cassandra Robinson
Grades 6-12
Enrollment 1,550
Color(s) Blue and Grey          
Team name Panthers
Information (754) 322-0800
Website http://www.dillardhigh.com/

Dillard High School is a historic public high school located in Fort Lauderdale of Broward County, Florida. The school was established in 1907 and named for black-education advocate James H. Dillard.

Dillard is available to all of Broward County. The school is a magnet school for Emerging Computer Technology and Performing Arts.

Dillard has an FCAT school grade of "A" for the 2013-2014 academic year.[1]

Magnet programs

Performing arts

As the first public school for people of African descent in Ft. Lauderdale, Dillard High School incorporated two magnet programs in an effort to integrate and expand the educational horizons of this historic school.[2]

Dillard Center for the Arts (DCA) provides training in dance, music, theater, and visual arts, as well as an academic schedule. Students must demonstrate ability and interest in one of the four artistic areas and exhibit academic potential. Such programs within the music department were keyboard, voice, band, orchestra and commercial music. The chorus, chorale, gospel choir, jazz band and rock band performs in Broward county and the Fort Lauderdale community and their students perform at the local, state, and national levels. Graduates of the magnet program go on to attend some of the top colleges and conservatory programs in the United States, including the Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and Columbia University.

Emerging computer technology

The Emerging computer technology offers courses in digital media, computer programming, robotics, and electronic technology hardware/network support. In addition, Dillard High School offers many advanced placement and honors courses.

Demographics

As of 2011, the total student enrollment was 1496. The ethnic makeup of the school was 7% White, 88% Black, 4% Hispanic, 0% Asian or Pacific Islander, 1% Multiracial, and 0% Native American or Native Alaskan.[3]

Awards & Accolades

The Dillard Center for the Arts Jazz Ensemble, as of 2015, made its sixth consecutive appearance in the Essentially Ellington competition of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The band, under the direction of director Christopher Dorsey, has won the Big Band Jazz competition twice in the last five years. They also placed among the top three in the other three years that the group made it into the finals.[4]

History

Famed saxophonist Julian Cannonball Adderley became the high school band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale in 1948, and worked there until 1950.[5]

Notable alumni

Performing artists
NFL
NBA
Former Faculty


References

  1. ↑ FCAT School Grades - High
  2. ↑ http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/olddillardmuseum/AboutUs/About%20Us960.html
  3. ↑ Enrollment Counts
  4. ↑ Sun Sentinel - "Dillard High's jazz band back in the bright lights of New York"
  5. ↑ Cannoball-Adderley.com

External links

Coordinates: 26°08′20″N 80°10′31″W / 26.1389746°N 80.1753241°W / 26.1389746; -80.1753241

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