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The school was funded with a $50 million donation from Bill Koch. [4] [5] Koch's goal was to create a school for his own children where academically gifted students of all socioeconomic backgrounds could do hands-on projects and learn by problem solving, a place where students ruled. [3]
Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (DSOA) is a public high school in West Palm Beach, Florida.Formerly named the Palm Beach County School of the Arts (also known as "School of the Arts" or "SOA"), the school was renamed in recognition of a 1997 donation of $1 million by Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., a West Palm Beach philanthropist.
Carla Rodas-Piña stands with her Latinos in Action class at John I. Leonard High School. Rodas-Piña is one of more than 12,000 teachers in Palm Beach County who stand to get a 7% raise if their ...
Palm Beach State College is a public college in Lake Worth, Florida.It is part of the Florida College System. [2] Palm Beach State College enrolls nearly 25,000 students in over 100 programs of study including bachelor of applied science, associate in arts and associate in science degree programs, and short-term certificates, as well as continuing education and avocational courses.
Isiah C. Smith (1922–2012) was a judge and civil rights attorney. He was Palm Beach County, Florida's third black lawyer. He and William Holland, Palm Beach County's first black attorney, fought successfully to integrate the county's schools, golf courses, department stores, airport taxi service, and the Florida Turnpike's restaurants and bathrooms through lawsuits and negotiations in the ...
St. Ann's School opened its doors in 1925 to serve parishes in central Palm Beach County. [citation needed] This school would serve the educational needs of Catholic high school students until the early 1960s. This changed when Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll announced construction of a new high school in West Palm Beach. [2]
Palm Beach Central High School is a high school located in Wellington, Florida in the School District of Palm Beach County. Opened in 2003, Palm Beach Central currently has over 3,000 students (2,966 in the 2019–20 school year) enrolled in grades nine through twelve. The school's mascot is the bronco, or bucking horse.
Diocesan Pastoral Center. The Diocese of Palm Beach (Latin: Dioecesis Litoris Palmensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Florida in the United States The patron saint of the diocese is Mary, mother of Jesus, under the title Queen of the Apostles.