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Name
West Shore Junior - Senior High School Address
250 Wildcat Alley, Melbourne FL 32935 Established
1998 Type
Public Students
950 Grades
7 to 12 Principal
Rick Fleming Nickname
West Shore High School, West Shore, WS, The Shore Mascot
Wildcat Colors
Navy, Gray, and White Motto "Excellence Achieved." Publications The Roar (Newspaper)
Alter Ego (Literary Magazine) Yearbook Arcadia Website
http://westshore.hs.brevard.k12.fl.us

West Shore Junior - Senior High School, more often called West Shore, is a secondary school located at 250 Wildcat Alley in Melbourne, Florida

Melbourne, Florida

Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. As of 2009, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 78,323. The municipal area is the second largest by size and by population in the county. Melbourne is a principal city of the Palm Bay – Melbourne – Titusville, Florida...

. West Shore enrolls students from grades seven through twelve. It is part of the Brevard Public Schools System. It was the first "School of Choice" in Brevard County, Florida. In 2008 US News and World Report named it in the "Best" category among the nations high schools, only one of two in Brevard County. The school was ranked 68 out of 21,069 in the country. For 2009, the school was rated as the 50th best high school in the country by U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

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.

Rick Fleming is the Principal.

Enrollment

As a public school, West Shore accepts any student who has met minimum academic and social expectations set by the school, provided there is space available. If there are more students interested in the school than is space available, a lottery is held to determine acceptance.

The Maximum school enrollment for all grades is capped at 950 students, in an effort to keep class sizes small.

Students are accepted from across the county. However, most students enrolled reside in southern Brevard county, mainly Melbourne, Palm Bay

Palm Bay, Florida

Palm Bay is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population as 100,786 on 1 July 2008; it is the most populous city in the county...

, Rockledge

Rockledge

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, West Melbourne

West Melbourne

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 and the Melbourne barrier island beachside.

Academics

West Shore is unique in several areas, highlighted below.

• Graduation requirements are increased from the minimum set by the county, with the addition of two extra credits, leadership in one or more areas or projects, 20 hours total of documented volunteer work yearly, two completed areas of accelerated study with either Advanced Placement classes or dual enrollment
  Dual enrollment
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   at Brevard Community College
  Brevard Community College
  Brevard Community College, founded in 1960, is a community college on Florida's Space Coast, in Brevard County, Florida. It has four campuses in Cocoa, Melbourne, Palm Bay, and Titusville, as well as an Aerospace program at Kennedy Space Center and a Virtual Campus...
  
  , eligibility for at least one post secondary scholarship, and completion of a senior project (similar to a senior thesis).
• Activity period once a week, providing for the development of clubs and organizations. (This is rotated each week on Mondays, one week will be Homeroom, the next week will be the club period while during the school day class times have been slightly decreased.)

Athletics

The school competes in the following sports:

• Cheerleading
  Cheerleading
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• Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball 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...
  
  
• Bowling
  Bowling
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• Volleyball
  Volleyball
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• Soccer
• Swimming
  Swimming (sport)
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• Cross Country
  Cross country running
  Cross 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...
  
  
• Track & Field
• Tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis 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...
  
  
• Golf
  Golf
  Golf 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....
  
  
• Soccer
• Lacrosse
  Lacrosse
  Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
  
  

Recognition

Blue Ribbon School, U.S Department of Education, 2004-5

The school scored the highest in the county on the 2007 state writing test.

The school was ranked 58 out of 21,069 in the country. Criteria were scoring high in state exams for both majority and minority students, and Advanced Placement testing including wide participation.

In 2008, the school, using state criteria, was tied with one other school in the county for having a 100% graduation rate.

Eighth grade students performed the highest in the county on the 2009 FCAT

Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test

The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or the FCAT , is the standardized test used in the primary and secondary public schools of Florida...

 essay test, at 4.80 tying with one other school. Sophomores scored the highest in the county on the essay test with a 4.90.

In 2010, the school had nine National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists out of 30 for the county.

External links

• West Shore's Home Page (official site)
• Satellite image from Google Maps