Spruce Creek High School

Infobox high school
name = Spruce Creek High School


motto = Service Opportunity Academics Responsibility
established = 1975
type = Public High School
principal = Timothy Egnor
city = Port Orange
state = Florida
country = USA
address = 801 Taylor Road Port Orange, FL 32127
students = 2,816
faculty = 149
mascot = Hawk
colors = Orange, Black & White colorbox|#F87217colorbox|blackcolorbox|white
district = Volusia County School District
homepage = [http://www.sprucecreekhigh.com/ Spruce Creek High School]

Spruce Creek High School is a high school in the city of Port Orange, Florida. It is the largest IB high school in North America [http://www.sprucecreekhigh.com/Noteworthy.htm] and is one of Newsweek's Top 100 High Schools. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7761678/site/newsweek/] . Spruce Creek High School is part of the Volusia County School District, which comprises eight other high schools and 80 schools total. [http://www.volusia.k12.fl.us/external/FACTS06-07.pdf] As of 2006, the school includes 59 portable classrooms spread out across the campus.

The IB Program

Spruce Creek offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. As of the 2007-2008 school year, it is the largest IB school in North America, and number 4 in the world, based on the number of IB exams administered.

CreekConnect

CreekConnect is a web site that allows students to view grades, schedules, calendars, talk to teachers, and announcements that are added by their teachers, who are able to exchange messages with their students. It also allows parents to view their child's grades, schedule, tardies, and obligations. CreekConnect is unique in Volusia County, and is an on-going programming project for computer programming students at Spruce Creek High School.

Activities and teams

Athletics and sports

The Spruce Creek Athletic Program has won the Five Star Volusia County Trophy six times in a row from 2000 onwards. It has produced several athletes of note including Ryan Lochte, US Olympic gold medalist swimmer. In 2006, the girl's softball team was runner up in the state tournament. [http://www.fhsaa.org/sb/2006/brak6.htm]

As of the 2007-2008 school year, the Spruce Creek boys' weightlifting team has won 24 Florida State Weightlifting Championships, and has 79 individual Florida State Weightlifting Champions. They also hold the record for the longest streak of consecutive championships at 11, from 1994 to 2004. Since their streak ended, Creek has added another title in 2006, and came in 3rd place in 2007. Six Creek lifters also hold individual state records in their respected weight classes. The Creek girls' weightlifting team has won all five Florida State Championships since its introduction in 2004. [http://www.fhsaa.org/records/rec_wtb.pdf]

Also for the 2007-2008 school year, Spruce Creek was awarded the Dodge Sunshine Cup All-Sports Award for class 6A public schools within the state of Florida. This award honored Spruce Creek as having one of the best overall sports programs in the state. Spruce Creek has a dance team called Papillon Dance Ensemble.

Botball

Spruce Creek High hosts one of the two Botball teams in Volusia County (the other being Mainland High School), and one of the highest ranked teams in Central Florida. The Spruce Creek High School Botball program was started late in the 2005-2006 school year, and won several awards at the Florida Regional Tournament.

Music and performing arts

The Spruce Creek Musical Performing Arts department has received numerous awards and invitations to events such as the Tournament of Roses Parade and locations such as France, England, and China, and is co-host of the yearly Lakeside Jazz Festival. Spruce Creek has an award-winning chorus program. They have been involved with the Florida Vocal Association, Stetson Choral Clinic, and the EPCOT candlelight ceremony.

Academic team

Spruce Creek's Academic Team participates in the Knowledge Master Open. Some of its members recently also participated in state-level competition and the Social Studies Bowl.

Mu Alpha Theta

Spruce Creek is one of only two Volusia County schools that have an active branch of the Mu Alpha Theta math honors society. Members regularly participate in the regional competitions, and on April 21-22, 2006 went to the state level competition, which had not happened in recent years. Several students received awards for ranking among the top 20 in the state in various fields.

chool Grades

*1998-1999 C
*1999-2000 C
*2000-2001 C
*2001-2002 A
*2002-2003 A
*2003-2004 B
*2004-2005 A
*2005-2006 B
*2006-2007 B
*2007-2008 A

References

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7761678/site/newsweek/ "The 100 Best High Schools in America"] by Barbara Kantrowitz, et al., "Newsweek", May 16, 2005.
* [http://www.sprucecreekhigh.com/Noteworthy.htm "Noteworthy News"] , No author credited, "Spruce Creek High School Official Web Site", retrieved April 29, 2005.
* [http://www.volusia.k12.fl.us/external/FACTS06-07.pdf] , Volusia County Schools, Feb 2, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.sprucecreekhigh.com Official Spruce Creek High School Site]
* [http://sprucecreek.wiki.com Spruce Creek High School Wiki]
* [http://www.nhshawks.com SCHS National Honors Society Home Page]
* [http://sprucecreekrobotics.com/ Robotics Home Page for Spruce Creek High Botball and First Teams]
* [http://www.creekconnect.com/ CreekConnect Homepage]
* [http://www.creekband.org/ SCHS Band Website] Home of Spruce Creek's musical performing arts program
* [http://www.creekbandalumni.org/ SCHS Band Alumni Website] Alumni website for Spruce Creek's graduated musical performing arts program members
* [http://www.creekguard.com/ SCHS Color Guard Website] Spruce Creek's color guard website
* [http://www.lakesidejazz.org/ Lakeside Jazz Festival Website] The Port Orange Lakeside Jazz Festival website, hosted by Spruce Creek and Atlantic high schools
*School Grades http://schoolgrades.fldoe.org/default.asp