Forest Hill Community High School
Encyclopedia
Forest Hill Community High School (FHCHS) also known as Forest Hill or The Hill, is a coeducational public high school in West Palm Beach, Florida
with an enrollment of more than 1800 students. The school is a part of the School District of Palm Beach County
.
, International Baccalaureate, Environmental Science
, Engineering
, Tourism and Hospitality
and JROTC. In 2008, the Tourism and Hospitality magnet program introduced a marketing club, DECA, into it's program; and in 2009, the club opened up the schools first alternative breakfast cafe called Falcon Cafe run by its members and officers.
The school also offers E.S.O.L (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and E.S.E ( Exceptional Student Education). The basic classes: English
, Math, Social Studies
, Science
, Foreign Language
, Art
, Culinary, Physical Education
, Culinary, and Woodwork.
The school ended their 37-game football losing streak on October 23, 2009. The Varsity Falcons beat Spanish River 12-7. They had the longest losing streak in the state with 43 games from 1999-2003. The win was only fifth in the decade for Forest Hill. The game was won on Forest Hill's Senior night, the last home football game for the 2009-2010 season, except for the homecoming game which was held on November 6, 2009.
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
with an enrollment of more than 1800 students. The school is a part of the School District of Palm Beach County
School District of Palm Beach County
The School District of Palm Beach County is the thirteenth largest public school district in the United States, and the fifth largest school district in Florida. The District encompasses all of Palm Beach County. For the 2010-2011 academic year, enrollment totals 171,692 students in Pre-K through...
.
History
The school opened as Forest Hill High School in 1959; it is situated next to the West Palm Beach Country Club and I-95 in the southwestern corner of the City of West Palm Beach on a compact 20.3 acres (82,151.3 m²) tract. A larger building replaced the original structure on the same site. The school was first accredited in 1961. In the 1980s, the Palm Beach County School Board added the word Community to the names of all public high schools. Forest Hill is a public school for students in the local community, and for those coming from afar to the magnet programs held at the school.Academics
The school's attendance boundaries encompass a culturally diverse area with a high percentage of non-native speakers of English. In order to expand the opportunities available to its student body, the school initiated many magnet programs: Information TechnologyInformation technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, International Baccalaureate, Environmental Science
Environmental science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
, Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, Tourism and Hospitality
Hospitality management studies
Hospitality management is the academic study of the hospitality industry. A degree in Hospitality management is often conferred from either a university college dedicated to the studies of hospitality management or a business school with a department in hospitality management studies...
and JROTC. In 2008, the Tourism and Hospitality magnet program introduced a marketing club, DECA, into it's program; and in 2009, the club opened up the schools first alternative breakfast cafe called Falcon Cafe run by its members and officers.
The school also offers E.S.O.L (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and E.S.E ( Exceptional Student Education). The basic classes: English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Math, Social Studies
Social studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, Foreign Language
Foreign language
A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...
, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, Culinary, Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, Culinary, and Woodwork.
Athletics
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - Football CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - Basketball CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
: Boys & Girls - SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
: Boys & Girls - Boys VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - Girls VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - BowlingBowlingBowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
: Boys & Girls - TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
: Boys & Girls - BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
: Boys & Girls - Track: Boys & Girls
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- Flag footballFlag footballFlag football is a version of Canadian football or American football that is popular worldwide. The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game , but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier to end...
- Boys Soccer: Varsity & Junior Varsity
- Girls Soccer: Varsity & Junior Varsity
- Boys BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - Girls BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - Boys WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity - Girls WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
: Varsity & Junior Varsity
The school ended their 37-game football losing streak on October 23, 2009. The Varsity Falcons beat Spanish River 12-7. They had the longest losing streak in the state with 43 games from 1999-2003. The win was only fifth in the decade for Forest Hill. The game was won on Forest Hill's Senior night, the last home football game for the 2009-2010 season, except for the homecoming game which was held on November 6, 2009.
School Rating
| Year | School Grade |
|---|---|
| 1989-1999 | C |
| 1999-2000 | D |
| 2000-2001 | D |
| 2001-2002 | F |
| 2002-2003 | C |
| 2003-2004 | C |
| 2004-2005 | B |
| 2005-2006 | C |
| 2006-2007 | C |
| 2007-2008 | C |
| 2008-2009 | C |
| 2009-2010 | B |
| 2010-2011 | B |
Notable alumni
- Ottis AndersonOttis AndersonOttis Jerome "O.J." Anderson is a former American football running back. He was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year by the Associated Press with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1979, and the MVP of Super Bowl XXV in 1991 when playing with the New York Giants...
, NFL player who earned MVP honors at the 1991 Super Bowl (Class of 1975) - Eddie GaillardEddie GaillardJulian Edward Gaillard is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.Though relatively unknown in the major leagues, he was highly successful in the Japanese Central League, making a total of 120 saves during his six year stay...
, Major League Baseball player (Class of 1988) - John R. EllisJohn R. EllisJohn Raymond Ellis is an American artist, filmmaker, animator, director, producer, and writer in Los Angeles, California, known particularly for his special effects.-Background:Ellis was born in Wilmington, Ohio south of Dayton...
, filmmaker and special effects artist (Class of 1973) - Jim Hanna, NFL player (Class of 1989)
- Jarrod JablonskiJarrod JablonskiJarrod Jablonski is a pioneering technical diver and record setting cave diver. Jablonski is one of the main architects behind the 'Doing It Right' system of diving.-Background:...
is a pioneering technical diverTechnical divingTechnical diving is a form of scuba diving that exceeds the scope of recreational diving...
and record setting cave diverCave divingCave diving is a type of technical diving in which specialized equipment is used to enable the exploration of caves which are at least partially filled with water. In the United Kingdom it is an extension of the more common sport of caving, and in the United States an extension of the more common...
. (Class of 1987) - Ken Stone, NFL player (Class of 1968)
- Robby ThompsonRobby ThompsonRobert Randall "Robby" Thompson is an American professional baseball coach and former college and professional player. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as the second baseman for the San Francisco Giants from to . Thompson is the current bench coach for the Seattle Mariners...
, Major League Baseball player (Class of 1980) - Harry Winkler, University of Florida Basketball player '65-'67, 1972 & 1976 U.S. Olympic Handball player (Class of 1963)
- Stephanie AbramsStephanie AbramsStephanie Abrams is an American on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, a 24-hour American cable television weather program. She has also done live reporting for the 2010 Winter Olympics at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:...
, a meteorologist that joined at The Weather ChannelThe Weather ChannelThe Weather Channel is a US cable and satellite television network since May 2, 1982, that broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather 24 hours a day...
in 2003 - Midas Mulah , a Recording Aritst For S.K. Productions in Miami
External links
- Forest Hill Community High School
- Rate My Teachers: Forest Hill Community High School
- Great Schools Reviews: Forest Hill Community High School
- Edline Page: Forest Hill Community High School
- FLDoE School Grade Report: Forest Hill Community High School
- USGS Supported Engineering Academy @ FHCHS
- IB Information: Forest Hill Community High School
- http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/highschoolbuzz/tag/spanish-river/