Coral Reef Senior High School is a secondary school located at 10101 S.W. 152nd Street in Richmond Heights, Florida, United States. The principal is Nicole Bergé-MacInnes. Coral Reef is locally known as "Miami's Mega Magnet School" since it offers six different

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''s list of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools in 2008, the school was ranked at 19th in the nation, making it 4th in the state of Florida at the time. In 2007, 2006 and 2005, it had ranked 22nd, 29th and 13th, respectively. This ranking is based on a ratio devised by Jay Mathews, which takes the number of

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tests taken by all students at a school in that school year and divides it by the number of graduating seniors. Coral Reef is currently ranked No.134 of the top high schools in the nation.

History

The school does not primarily serve the surrounding neighborhoods, but instead takes applications from middle school students all over the county. Selection is done via a lottery system for all magnet programs except for Visual & Performing Arts, for which acceptance is based on ability; students must audition for this program. Most students living around the Coral Reef area attend

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. Coral Reef has received an "A" grade for its performance on the FCAT examination on ten occasions since the annual test was first administered in 1998. Coral Reef has three publications: the newspaper, ''Baitline,'' their yearbook, ''Tsunami,'' and the school's literary magazine, ''Elysium.'' The newspaper is published monthly while the yearbook and literary magazine are both published annually. The daily morning newscast, ''CRTV Live'' (originally known as ''Cudavision,'' and later adapted to include the channel number as ''Cudavision 21''), airs on closed-circuit channel 21. Coral Reef has six different magnets:

, Health Sciences, Business & Finance, Legal & Public Affairs, Agriscience & Engineering Technology, and Visual & Performing Arts.

Athletics

In the 2019-2020 marching season, the Barracuda Marching Band wo
straight superiors at the Marching Band Music Performance Assessment
with their sho
"Storms of Africa" by Gary P. Gilroy and Shawn Glyde
In the 2021-2022 school year, the Barracuda Band won th
Otto J. Kraushaar Award
for achieving straight superiors at the Marching Band Music Performance Assessment with their sho
"Pirates!" by Gary P. Gilroy and Shawn Glyde
straight superiors at the District Concert Band Music Performance Assessment, and straight superiors at the State Concert Band Music Performance Assessment.

Demographics

Coral Reef is 49% Hispanic (of any race), 31% White non-Hispanic, 25% Black, 5% Asian, and 5% other races.

Notable people

Alumni

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Faculty

David Menasche David Menasche (August 1, 1973 – November 20, 2014) was an American educator and a cofounding teacher of Coral Reef Senior High School in South Miami-Dade, Florida. Menasche began his teaching career at Coral Reef after earning his teaching certi ...

, author

References

External links

Coral Reef High School Web PageMiami-Dade County Public SchoolsBarracuda Band Web PageCoral Reef High School YouTube PageBarracuda Band YouTube PageCoral Reef High School Instagram PageVisual and Performing Arts Academy Instagram PageBarracuda Band Instagram PageBarracuda Jazz Band Instagram Page
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