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Miami Palmetto Senior High School is a secondary school located at 7460 S.W. 118th Street in Pinecrest, Florida, USA, a Miami suburb; its principal is Howard Weiner. The school is on 23 acres (93,000 m²) in southwest Miami-Dade County, Florida, and is part of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district. Miami Norland Senior High is Palmetto's sister school by original blueprints. The school has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence[1]. Palmetto's athletic rivals are Miami Killian High School and Coral Reef High School. Coral Gables High School was a rival throughout much of the school's history.
[edit] HistoryThe school was built in 1958. Palmetto serves a diverse population both culturally and socio-economically. It is the last public high school with a white majority in Miami Dade county. The school is 42% white non-Hispanic, 33% Hispanic, 16% black non-Hispanic, and 9% Asian. [edit] AcademicsPalmetto students score higher on both state and national assessments than any other standard (non-magnet) public school in Miami-Dade County. According to Newsweek's List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools (2007), Palmetto is ranked at 115th in the nation, 20th in the state of Florida. This ranking is based on a ratio devised by Jay Mathews, which takes the number of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students at a school in 2005 and divides it by the number of graduating seniors. [edit] Palmetto mediaMiami Palmetto has two publications: the newspaper, The Panther, and the yearbook, Palm Echo. The newspaper is published monthly by students while the yearbook is published annually by the Palm Echo yearbook staff. Kurt Panton serves as advisor to both the Newspaper and Yearbook staffs. The daily morning newscast, WPAW, airs on closed-circuit channel 3. [edit] AthleticsPalmetto won the Miami Herald's Athletic Program of the Year Award for large schools in 2005-06 and 2006-07. Palmetto is strong in swimming, track, golf, wrestling, girls basketball, tennis, baseball and softball. Many athletes have signed college scholarships. Currently playing for the boys basketball team is Tim Hardaway Jr. who has committed to The University of Michigan and is also the son of former NBA all-star Tim Hardaway. Palmetto's football team has recently produced players such as Jaamal Berry (Ohio State) Taylor Wasser (Florida Atlantic) and Andrell Smith (Louisvile). Miami Palmetto has won 15 state championships.
Last season many teams finished strong at the regional (Southern Florida) and state level.
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