Cooper City High School is a high school

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 located in Cooper City, Florida

Cooper City, Florida

Cooper City is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city is named for Morris Cooper, who founded the community in 1959. The city's population was 28,547 at the 2010 census...

 which teaches grades 9

Ninth grade

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-12

Twelfth grade

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.

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 24,000 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. Cooper City has an FCAT

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 school grade of "B" for the 2008–2009 academic year.

Facilities

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.

Academics

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).

Athletics

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 .

Alumni

Notable alumni of Cooper City High School include:

• William "Bill" Sanford, Professional Model and Actor in commercials, print and Film.

• Bobby Estalella
  Bobby Estalella (baseball catcher)
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  , Major League Baseball catcher, Troy C. Dupont C/O 2008 Outfielder*
• Olindo Mare
  Olindo Mare
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  , kicker for the Miami Dolphins
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   football team since 1997. On April 4, 2007, Mare was traded from the Miami Dolphins to the New Orleans Saints for the Saints' 6th round pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.
• Melissa Kratish, played Baby Gina on the Miami Vice television series.
• Keith Murray
  Keith Murray (singer)
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  , Lead Singer of We Are Scientists
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• Niki Taylor
  Niki Taylor
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  , model;
• Jeff Wagner, musician. Keyboard player with The Postmarks
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• Donny Mizrachi, professional poker player and magician. One of a record 4 Mizrachi brothers to cash at the 2010 WSOP Main Event.
• Chelsea Korka, Singer for Paradiso Girls
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• Ford Ross, Jr., musician. Joined the US Army Band in Hawaii and played the part of the fifer from the painting, 'The Spirit of '76' on the nation's Bicentennial Celebration on July 4th, 1976, in Aloha Stadium in front of 70,000 patriots.
• Larry Boone
  Larry Boone
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   Recording Artist, Musician

Clubs/Organizations

• Amnesty International
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• Anime/Art Club
• Band
• Best Buddies
• Chess Club
• Chorus
• Colorguard
• Cowboys Against Cancer
• Cowboy Television (CTV)
• DECA
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   – for more info go to http://www.cchsdeca.org
• Debate Club
• DFYIT (Drug Free Youth In Town)
• Dodgeball Club
• Drama Club
• FJAS (Florida Junior Academy of Sciences)
• FMPA (Future Medical Professionals of America)
• Infinite Club club.infinite.googlepages.com/
• Kickball Club
• Varsity Cross Country
• Varsity Ice Hockey
• JV Basketball
• Varsity Basketball
• JV Football
• Varsity Football
• Varsity Baseball
• Varsity Soccer
• Human Relations Council
• Key Club
  Key Club
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• Lacrosse Club- Boys and Girls
• NJROTC Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
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• Math Club/Tutoring
• Multicultural club
• NHS
  National Honor Society
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   (National Honor Society) – Chapter website: http://www.cchsnhs.com
• RSDA (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
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   Awareness)
• SGA (Student Government Association)
• SITE (Students Improving The Environment)
• Spanish Club
• Spanish National Honor Society
• Florida State Thespians
• The Adventurers Guild
• JSU
  Jewish Student Union
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   (Jewish Student Union)
• Junior State of America (JSA)
• Philosophical Discourse Society
• PAW (Promoting Animal Welfare)
• PRES Club (Promoting Reading in the Elementary Setting)
• VAFA (Voice Against Family Abuse)
• Venture Club

Scandals

On May 26, 1993 two Cooper City High school girls were arrested on prostitution charges, giving the school the nickname "Hooker High".

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.

External links

• Cooper City High School website (redirects from www.broward.k12.fl.us/coopercityhigh/)
• Cooper City High School statistics provided by publicschoolreview.com
• Cooper City High School boundary map (PDF)
• Broward County Public Schools FCAT school grades (2002–2005)
• Cooper City High Freeservers
• CCHS Class of 1977