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North Miami Beach Senior High School 
Location 1247 NE 167 Street
North Miami Beach, Florida, 33162
USAInformation School type Public, high school Established 1971 School district Miami-Dade County Public Schools Principal Raymond L. Fontana Grades 9-12 Enrollment 2,351 Campus type Suburban Color(s) Red, White, and Blue Mascot Chargers Website nmb.dadeschools.net
North Miami Beach Senior High School (NMB High School) is a secondary school located at 1247 NE 167 Street in North Miami Beach, Florida, USA; its current principal is Raymond L. Fontana. NMB High School was built in 1971 as an overcrowding reliever school for North Miami High School to the south at 800 N.E. 137 Street, and Miami Norland High School to the northwest at 1050 N.W. 195 Street. NMB High School was a pioneer in school construction, being the first high school in Dade County to be built with no windows, and was, therefore, completely air-conditioned.Contents
History
NMB High School's style of education, with no traditional letter grades, created tension within middle and upper-middle class North Dade (County) families, whose older children had attended and graduated from traditional Dade County schools. They were not happy that their younger children would be placed in an experimental school that eschewed the traditions the parents knew, as the Miami Herald reported at the time. However, by the time the school was four years old, the non-traditional approach had been abandoned.
NMB High School also has a Biomedical and Environmental Advancement Magnet program (BEAM) available to all students in the district. The program gives higher education credits to students wishing to pursue a career in medicine or environmental sciences.
In the summer of 2005, the school added a two-story building to its campus.
Demographics
NMBSHS is 69% Black, 22% Hispanic (of any race), 5% Asian/other, and 4% White non-Hispanic.[1]
Sports
Until a regional high school football stadium was built in the 1990s at the (northern) Biscayne Bay campus of Florida International University off Biscayne Boulevard and N.E. 151 Street, the NMB Chargers football team played both its home and away games at the northern regional football stadium, Traz Powell Stadium. Located at the then Miami-Dade North Community College campus, now called Miami Dade College, it was more than seven miles (11 km) away from the NMB campus. it has 24 acres (97,000 m2).
Sports rivalries
NMB's athletic rivals are North Miami Senior High School and Dr. Michael M. Krop High School.
Prior to the opening of Krop, the following schools were the most intense rivals: Men's Soccer- North Miami Senior High School, especially games at the Pioneers' home field, the scene of a historic Ciro Martinez-led last-second Charger win in 1976 that helped fuel the Chargers' run to the Florida state championship.
The Vikings of Miami Norland Senior High School, who inflicted a 1977 loss on the Chargers, knocking them out of the Florida state playoffs at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, and ending the Chargers' hope of winning back-to-back Florida state soccer championships. The Vikings eventually finished as the state runner-up that year.
Women's Gymnastics-
- North Miami Senior High School always proved tough competition when twin sisters Debbie Reiser and Donna Reiser were top-flight All-Dade gymnasts there between 1975-79. Ultimately, NMBs greater depth and all-around ability always won the day by the last event led by Lisa Martin and Karen Ginsburg.
- The toughest competition for the NMB Charger gymnastics team during their undefeated glory days of the late 1970s under head coach Peter Saponaro -himself an All-American and co-captain of an NCAA Championship Men's team at Pennsylvania State University in the 1960s- The team was stocked with a bevy of talented gymnasts: Laurie Reiff, the Zobler sisters, Toby Kapp, Joyce Budowsky and Yael Kantor.
Awards and Achievements
- Men's Soccer: Florida State Champions in 1976 under head coach Victor Cappillo
- Women's Gymnastics: Greater Miami Athletic Conference (County) Champions 1976-1979, State Champions, State Invitational Championship meets, 1979 and 1982 under head coach Peter Saponaro
- Mens's Water Polo: State Champions in 1982
- Wrestling: State Champions in 1994 under head coach Bill McDonnell
- Robotics Regional Champions in 2003
- NMB Charger Band: Received an Excellent at Evoluation 2009 [with Band Director James Lockhart]
- JROTC Drill Team: State Champs 2010, 2009, 2008 [MJ. Rountree]
- JROTC Drill Team: National Champs 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 [MJ. Rountree]
- Mr. Mathew Toppins Rookie Teacher Of The Year 2010.
- Marc Frankel Award for North Bay Fishing Tournament
Notable Alumni
- Margie Goldstein-Engle (born 1958), equestrian show horse champion
- Sheryl Sandberg - Chief Operating Officer of Facebook [2]
- MC Jin - Rapper
- Brad Meltzer - New York Times Bestselling Author
- Louis Delmas - NFL Cornerback for the Detroit Lions
- Perry Farrell (Perry Bernstein), Rock star - Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyro's, etc.
- Max Jean-Gilles - Philadelphia Eagles
- Bobby Kemp - former NFL strong safety for Cincinnati Bengals from 1981-86, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1987. Started in Super Bowl as rookie.
- Garcelle Beauvais - actress (portrays attorney Valerie Heywood the TV's NYPD Blue)
- Eric Garcia - Author
- Kirill Reznik - politician, Maryland House of Delegates (Maryland General Assembly)
- Gwen Cooper - New York Times Bestselling Author
See also
References
External links
Categories:- Miami-Dade County Public Schools
- Educational institutions established in 1971
- High schools in Miami-Dade County
- Blue Ribbon schools in Florida
- North Miami Beach, Florida
- School buildings completed in 1971
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