Pedro Menendez High School

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Pedro Menendez High School
St. Augustine High School
Websitewww-pmhs.stjohns.k12.fl.us

Pedro Menendez High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in southern St. Johns County, Florida, United States. It was named for Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a sixteenth-century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter who founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in what is now the continental United States, on August 28, 1565.

It has a student body of over 1,300 students. The school building is a two-story octagon with an open courtyard in the center. The gymnasium and auditorium are attached on the east and west sides, respectively. The school was built simultaneously with

St. Augustine High School. The school opened August 28, 2000,[6]
and graduated its first class in 2001.

Their curriculum offers academy programs in the areas of business & computer technology, health science and architectural & building sciences.[7][8]

Attendance boundary

Communities within the school's attendance boundary include:[9] Butler Beach,[10] Crescent Beach,[11] Flagler Estates,[12] Hastings,[13] Marineland,[14] St. Augustine Shores,[15] and St. Augustine South.[16] It also includes a small portion of St. Augustine Beach.[17]

Advanced scholarship

The Advanced Scholars program gives students the option to participate in the rigorous programs of

honors courses. After two years of preliminary work, the school was approved for the International Baccalaureate Program, beginning in the Fall of 2010.[citation needed
]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ ""School Accountability Reports" at schoolgrades.fldoe.org".
  2. PDF
    )     on March 28, 2008. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
  3. ^ a b c "PEDRO MENENDEZ HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  4. ^ Donovan, Norma: "Perspective: Ponte Vedra high school issue like growing ivy" St. Augustine Record, July 9, 2004
  5. ^ "Pedro Menendez High School 2021-2022 Regular Bell Schedule" (PDF). Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  6. ^ Miller, Josh:"Learning Legacy: A brief history of Pedro Menendez High School" Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine St. Augustine Record, December 21, 2001
  7. ^ "Construction career pathway open house planned at Menendez" Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine St. Augustine Record, November 15, 2003
  8. ^ Pounder, Lory: "Menendez classes open new career paths" Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine St. Augustine Record, December 6, 2003
  9. ^ "2022 - 2023 St. Johns County School Attendance Zones Pedro Menendez High School" (PDF). St. Johns County School District. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  10. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved August 1, 2022. - Compare to the school zone maps.
  11. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved August 1, 2022. - Compare with the school zone maps.
  12. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved August 2, 2022. - Compare to the school zone maps.
  13. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved August 1, 2022. - Compare to the school zone maps.
  14. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  15. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved August 1, 2022. - Compare with the school district map.
  16. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved August 1, 2022. - Compare with the school district map.
  17. ^ "Land Use Map" (PDF). St. Augustine Beach. March 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2021. - Also see the 2020 Census Map - Compare to the school boundary maps.

External links

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