North Miami Beach High School

North Miami Beach Senior High School
Address
1247 NE 167 Street
North Miami Beach, Florida 33162
United States
Coordinates 25°55′48″N 80°10′31″W / 25.92989°N 80.17537°W / 25.92989; -80.17537Coordinates: 25°55′48″N 80°10′31″W / 25.92989°N 80.17537°W / 25.92989; -80.17537
Information
School type Public, high school
Established 1971
School district Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Principal Randy Milliken
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 2,351
Campus type Suburban
Color(s) Red, White, and Blue
              
Mascot Chargers
Website nmb.dadeschools.net

North Miami Beach Senior High School (NMB High School) is a secondary school located at 1247 NE 167 Street in North Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Its current principal is Randy Milliken. NMB High School was built in 1971 as an overcrowding reliever school for North Miami High School and Miami Norland High School.

NMB High School was a pioneer in school construction; it was the first high school in Dade County to be built with no windows, and was therefore completely air-conditioned.

History

NMB High School's style of education, with no traditional letter grades, created tension within middle- and upper-middle-class North Dade County families, whose older children had attended and graduated from traditional Dade County schools. They were not happy that their younger children would be placed in an experimental school that eschewed the traditions the parents knew, as the Miami Herald reported at the time. However, by the time the school was four years old, the non-traditional approach had been abandoned.

NMB High School has a Biomedical and Environmental Advancement Magnet program (BEAM) available to all students in the district. The program gives higher education credits to students wishing to pursue a career in medicine or environmental sciences.

In the summer of 2005, the school added a two-story building to its campus.

When Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High Biscayne Bay Campus opened in 2009, it relieved North Miami Beach High.[1]

Demographics

NMBSHS is 72% Black, 21% Hispanic (of any race), 3% Asian/other, and 4% White non-Hispanic.[2]

Academics

North Miami Beach High School offers the AP Capstone pilot program. Students who successfully complete the Seminar and Capstone courses, and who earn a 3 or higher on three or more Advanced Placement courses, earn a Credential of Program completion.[3]

Sports

Until a regional high school football stadium was built in the 1990s at the northern Biscayne Bay campus of Florida International University, the NMB Chargers football team played both its home and away games at the northern regional football stadium, Traz Powell Stadium. Located at the then Miami-Dade North Community College campus, now called Miami Dade College, it was more than seven miles (11 km) away from the NMB campus. It is 24 acres (97,000 m2).

Sports rivalries

NMB's athletic rivals are North Miami Senior High School and Dr. Michael M. Krop High School.

Prior to the opening of Krop, the following schools were the most intense rivals:

Men's soccer

Women's gymnastics

Awards and achievements

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SS_QQQ1_1-24-09.pdf." Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High Biscayne Bay Campus. Retrieved on May 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/17611
  3. ↑ http://nmb.dadeschools.net/cambridge.html

External links

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