Lemon Bay High School

infobox school
name=Lemon Bay High School


streetaddress=2201 Placida Road
city=Englewood
state=Florida
country=USA
zipcode=34224
type=Public
grades=9-12
district=Charlotte County Public Schools
principal=Daniel R. Jeffers
founded=1972
enrollment=1,560
campus=rural
mascot=Manta ray
motto="Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve" [http://www.lemonbayhigh.com/]
colors=colorbox|#000080 Navy Blue colorbox|orange Orange
website=http://www.lemonbayhigh.com

Lemon Bay High School (LBHS) is an American public high school located in Englewood, Florida. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is operated by Charlotte County Public Schools [http://schools.publicschoolsreport.com/Florida/Englewood/LemonBayHighSchool.html] .

It is unique in that it serves not only students from within Charlotte County, but also serves a great number of students from Sarasota County as well.

History and campus

Lemon Bay High School is named after the eponymous bay of which the campus is located across, and opened its doors in 1972 as an elementary school. In 1976, it would become a junior-senior high school serving grades seven through twelve. Following the construction of L.A. Ainger Middle School in 1983, however the school would eventually become only a senior high school, which it remains to this day.

A major renovation completed in 1987 [cite book
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title = Manta 1987: Reel Life At Lemon Bay
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date = 1987
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The swimming pool was drained and filled with concrete in 2008.

Academics

The standard english, mathematics, science and history courses are core requirements for all students. These four subjects can be taken as Advanced Placement or honors level courses. Many electives are also available, including television production, drafting, journalism, French language, Spanish language, and physical education courses.Fact|date=July 2008 As with all schools in Florida, Lemon Bay High School is evaluated yearly by the Florida Department of Education based on the FCAT scores of the students. LBHS has received grades ranging from A to C, with the most recent grade (for the 2007-2008 school year) being B. [http://schoolgrades.fldoe.org/default.asp?action=SGdetail1&cosch=080051&type=3&thisSchoolYear=2007-2008&schoolNumbers=080031%2C+080051%2C+080151&allSchools=&districts=08&schoolYear=2007%2D2008%2C2006%2D2007%2C2005%2D2006%2C2004%2D2005%2C2003%2D2004%2C2002%2D2003%2C2001%2D2002%2C2000%2D2001%2C1999%2D2000%2C1998%2D1999&school_grade=&report=SG&level=School&charterStatus=C%2CL%2CR%2CZ]

Extra-curricular activities

The school has a number of different clubs and honorary socities available to students, which are primarily engaged in service to students and to the community. They include the Lettermans Club, Key Club, Children Are Reason Enough (CARE) Club, Interact Club, Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) Club, Web Club, foreign-language clubs, National Honors Society, and French Honors Society.

Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC)

The NJROTC unit was established and is maintained by the United States Navy as a citizenship program with focus on developing leadership characteristics within students. Students in NJROTC wear a modified U.S. Navy uniform once a week and must pass a physical education test once every nine weeks as part of the curriculum. Outside of the traditional classroom core curriculum, students are capable and encouraged to participate in a number of extracurricular activities, including an athletic team, academic team, armed and unarmed drill team, color guard, and a number of community service projects and fundraisers, including the American Legion and Rotary Club. Student leaders are in direct control of the affairs of the unit, and are supervised by two retired United States Navy instructors [http://www.ccps.k12.fl.us/schools/lbhs/staff/EllisR.html] [http://www.lbhsnjrotc.com] .

The unit is a part of NJROTC Area Seven, which includes the majority of schools with NJROTC programs in the southeast United States [https://www.njrotc.navy.mil/hostschools.cfm] .

Model United Nations

The Model United Nations club on campus focuses on involving students in a moot form of international debate. The club participates in a number of competitions against state-wide schools, and has achieved success in a number of these competitions, including at the University of Florida, University of Central Florida, Florida Gulf Coast University, and the Florida High School Model United Nations(FHSMUN) [http://www.ccps.k12.fl.us/HighSchools.cfm?pageID=LBH] . The school was also a founding member of the competition held at Florida Gulf Coast University, the Southwest Florida Model United Nations Competition [http://www.fgcu.edu/modelun/page.asp?p=who] .

Theater Arts

The theater program at the high school allows students to act and work as technicians on a number of small one act productions by enrolling in an elective class during school hours.

The theater program puts on several productions during the school year, along with one during the summer in which elementary and junior high students participate. They traditionally perform one non-musical production during the fall semester, and a musical production in the spring semester. In the past, the theater program has put on productions such as "The Music Man", "Anything Goes", "Seussical the Musical", "Les Miserables", "Swing!", "Oklahoma!", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", "Cats" and "Grease".

The thespian troupe at the school has also achieved success with district and state level performances.

Music Programs

The school's band is made up of a marching band, symphonic band, percussion ensemble, and jazz band. The Marching band - known as the "Marching Mantas" - performs a half-time show during home and away school football games, and competes against other schools at state-wide competitions. The symphonic band consists of only wind, brass and percussion instruments, with no string section or string players participating. Both the symphonic and jazz bands are rated on their progress and quality of performance each year by their district Florida Bandmaster's Association.

Students may participate in the symphonic and jazz bands by enrolling in an elective class during school hours, and may participate in the marching band and percussion ensemble as extracurricular activities without a required class.

The Marching Mantas participated in a performance at the FedEx Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida in January 2007 along with several other high school marching bands [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29077663_ITM] .

Athletics

Fall season sports at LBHS include junior varsity and varsity football, golf, volleyball, swimming, diving, cheerleading, and cross country running. During the winter season, sports include basketball and wrestling. During the spring season, students can participate in tennis, track, or softball [http://www.lemonbayhigh.com/sports/] . Lemon Bay has long-standing rivalries with nearby Venice and Port Charlotte high schools.

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