Miami Senior High School - Miami, Florida/FL

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Miami Senior High School

2450 Sw 1st Street, Miami, FL, 33135-1402 -

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Definition of Terms

Miami Senior High School

School Level

High school

School Type

Magnet School

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Miami-dade County, FL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

3399 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

167 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 1027 students

Grade 10 - 1043 students

Grade 11 - 772 students

Grade 12 - 557 students

This School

(FL) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:20

1:19

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(FL) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	1%	2%
% Hispanic	91%	18%
% Black	5%	26%
% White	3%	52%

Additional Student Information

This School

(FL) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

59%

26%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

10%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(FL) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Dade County School District

This School's Agency

(FL) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	394	24
Number of Students Managed	363,406 students	15,852 students
District Total Revenue	$3,448,734,000	$150,286,000
District Expenditure	$3,439,247,000	$148,035,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,490	$9,481
District Expenditure / Student	$9,464	$9,339
District Graduation Rates	76%	90%

Pioneer in law school, on bench (Miami Herald)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 06:00:16 am
Judge Dixie Chastain, the first female University of Miami law school graduate and a Miami-Dade County juvenile judge for two decades, died Oct. 25 at 100.
UN security guard from Miami hailed as hero (Crestview News Bulletin)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 11:22:01 pm
MIAMI (AP) — A United Nations security guard from Miami who died fighting the Taliban during an attack on a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff. Twenty-seven-year-old Louis Maxwell was killed during the gunfight...
UN security guard from Miami hailed as hero (KJCT 8 Grand Junction)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 10:25:15 pm
MIAMI (AP) - A United Nationssecurity guard from Miami who died fighting the Taliban during an attack on a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff.
UN security guard from Miami who died fending off Taliban attack in Afghanistan hailed as hero (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 10:21:24 pm
MIAMI - A United Nations security guard from Miami who died fighting the Taliban during an attack on a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff.
'Life After Favre' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
posted on October 3, 2009 at 12:40:01 am
Editor's note: When Brett Favre announced his retirement from the Packers in March 2008, Phil Hanrahan came up with the idea of a book in which he would chronicle Packer Nation in the first year A.B. - After Brett. He moved from Los Angeles to Green Bay for the 2008 season, immersed himself in the town and the Packer culture. The scope of the book changed with Favre's comeback with the Jets, his ...

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Miami High School is a secondary school located at 2450 SW 1st Street in Miami, Florida, USA; its principal is Benny Valdez.
Miami High's official rival is Coral Gables High School, but the school also has an informal athletic rivalry with Miami Beach Senior High School. The Substitute filmed in 1996, and Porky's filmed in 1982, using the school as its main location.
History
Miami Senior High is the oldest functioning high school in the county of Miami-Dade, having opened its doors in 1903. The school's current campus opened in 1928. Groundbreaking occurred early in 1926 but due to the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, the school's opening was delayed for over a year. The original school was established as a two-story wooden structure, for 15 students, on Northeast First Avenue. The school was first opened in early 1903 with an enrollment of 264, and was already overcrowded on its first day; since then, Miami High School has always suffered from overcrowding. Miami High changed locations three times before it finally settled on its current four-story, 2,792-student campus near what is now Little Havana.
Demographics
Miami Senior High is 90% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% White non-Hispanic and 1% Asian.
Notable alumni
William "Hoagy" Hogarth - Auburn University Center, (1929 - 2009)
Alfredo Amézaga - IF, Florida Marlins
Atari Bigby - NFL safety, Green Bay Packers
Steve Blake - NBA point guard, Portland Trail Blazers
Eddie Brown - NFL wide receiver, Cincinnati Bengals
Jeff Coopwood - Emmy nominated Actor/Broadcaster/Singer
Emilio Estefan - Cuban music producer
Robert L. Floyd - former Mayor of Miami, State Representative, Judge, and Miami Sheriff
Christopher George - (1929-1983) actor and former Marine
Marisleysis Gonzalez - Elian Gonzalez's first cousin once removed
Bob Graham - Florida Governor and US Senator
Philip L. Graham - Publisher of The Washington Post.
Udonis Haslem - NBA forward, Miami Heat
Steve Hertz - MLB player and Israel Baseball League manager
Jamaal Jackson - NFL center, Philadelphia Eagles
Andre Johnson - NFL wide receiver, Houston Texans
Raul L. Martinez - former Mayor of the City of Hialeah
Roscoe Parrish - NFL WR, Buffalo Bills
Marquand Manuel - NFL, DB, Carolina Panthers
Barbara Pernaris - Spain film/advertising producer
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - first Latina and Cuban-American elected to United States Congress
Veronica Lake - actress.
George Smathers - Florida Senator
Also movies such as "The Substitute", "Porkys" and Gloria Estefan's video with N'Sync, "Music of My Heart", were filmed at MHS.
See also
Education in the United States
External links
Miami High School website
Miami-Dade County public schools

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