Johnson Scholars Receive $430,000 in Scholarship

The Johnson Scholarship Foundation and the School District of Palm Beach County will honor 43 deserving seniors with $430,000 in scholarship money on Sunday, May 5th.  The Johnson Scholarship Foundation partners with the District to provide a scholarship incentive program that helps first generation college students overcome barriers to reaching their college and career dreams. [...]

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Ninety of the District’s high schools’ brightest and best came together to answer questions such as “what is the theory that defines space and time as relative concepts and not absolute as in Newtonian physics” during this year’s A Team Competition.  The County contest—held in January– is over and the high school that will represent [...]

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By the time recruiters from the 12 participating Historically Black Colleges and Universities  (HBCU’s) closed up shop and headed home, they had awarded  85 full and partial scholarships and 557 admissions to students who attended the 5th Annual HBCU Recruitment and Admissions Tour.  The following colleges, universities and district high schools participated in the tour January 15-17.   [...]

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January’s Outstanding Local Teacher for the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is Richard Andreacchio, chorus director at Santaluces High School; and Dwyer High School senior Jacolbi Ivory has been announced as the Center’s Student of the Month. Tracy C. Butler, director of Education for the Performing Arts Center said the two exemplify [...]

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The 38th Annual University of South Florida Festival of Winds last weekend included five students from Santaluces High School. Over three hundred students from around the state participated in this year’s festival.  The intent of the four-day event is to provide participants with an experience that will help them develop their musicianship at both the individual [...]

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The Palm Beach County Substance Awareness Coalition invites parents, teachers, social service providers and other community members to attend Bullying Prevention: Social Responsibility in the 21st Century, a special training aimed at arming the community with the skills needed to stop bullying.  When? Friday, November 30, 2012 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm  Where? Santaluces [...]

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The Santaluces band members, Director Manuel Camacho, and band supporters are organizing the school’s first Craft show. WHAT:      Arts and Craft Show to Benefit Santaluces High School Band WHEN:     Saturday, December 1, 2012- 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.                    (Vendor set-up time: 6:30-8:30 a.m.) WHERE:   Santaluces High School, 6880 Lawrence Road, Lantana WHY:        Great family event [...]

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Exhibit tied in to Ninth Annual Reading Together Campaign An exhibit featuring the artwork of student photographers from a number of area high schools opens at the Norton Museum of Art Saturday, November 3, as part of commemoration activities of the Palm Beach County Library System’s Ninth Annual Families Reading Together campaign. The students work [...]

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The Johnson Scholarship Foundation and the School District of Palm Beach County will honor 44 deserving seniors with over $440,000 in scholarship money on Sunday, April 29th.  The Johnson Scholarship Foundation partners with the District to provide a scholarship incentive program that helps first generation college students overcome barriers to reaching their college and career [...]

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The Florida Fishing Academy, a nonprofit organization that uses fishing to teach valuable life lessons was recently highlighted on the NBC Nightly News.  Students from Santaluces High School and Village Academy, enrolled in the Fishing Academy, were interviewed by NBC news correspondent Mark Potter and featured in the story.  The “Making A Difference” segment titled [...]

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The College Board recently announced that Boynton Beach High School and Santaluces Community High School were chosen as SpringBoard® National Demonstration Schools for the 2011-2013 school years. These schools will serve as model sites of future SpringBoard implementations throughout the country. A total of 14 schools from Colorado, New Mexico Washington and Florida were selected. [...]

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Palm Beach County high schools and their students were awarded multiple honors through their participation in Advanced Placement courses and their successful performance on the culminating AP exams.   According to AP Online Score Reports, this past year in Palm Beach County, 13,514 students took 25,357 Advanced Placement exams.  Of those students, 2,732 were recognized with [...]

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Santaluces High School invites all students, teachers, parents and community members to an Earth Day Fair for Kids.  When? April 21st, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Where? Santaluces High School – 6880 Lawrence Rd., Lantana, FL 33462  A variety of games and activities with an environmental/earth day theme will be available.  It is open to [...]

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Congratulations to Boynton Beach Community High School and Santaluces Community High School for their selection as finalists to become College Board SpringBoard® National Demonstration School sites. This would be a prestigious honor that would open up two of the District’s SpringBoard® schools to other educators and districts across the nation.   SpringBoard® is the College Board’s [...]

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Members of Santaluces High School’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) recently attended the school’s 11th FCCLA National Conference when they traveled to in Chicago, Illinois. They joined 6,000 other young people from the 50 United States, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The students from Santaluces were involved in competition, presentations, and various [...]

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The Santaluces High School Junior Varsity AND Varsity Winter Color Guards were crowned WGI South Florida Regional Champions when they won in their respective classes earlier this month.  Santaluces Junior Varsity won the Regional A Class and the Santaluces Varsity were crowned Open Class Champions.  The Varsity squad is preparing for their trip to Dayton, [...]

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Santaluces High School is proud to present the musical A Chorus Line Thursday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. and; SundayMarch 7 at 3 p.m. in its Performing Arts Center off of Lawrence Road in Lantana. Tickets are $10 for adults or $5 for students and can be purchased at [...]

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When the award-winning Santaluces High School Performing Arts Department presents its Haiti aid concert this Thursday, February 11th the audience will be treated to presentations from members of the Chorus, Band, and Drama Departments.  The event, which gets underway at 7:00 p.m. in the school’s Performing Arts Center will include a variety of presentations in [...]

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 The Fine/Performing Arts Department at Santaluces High School is gearing up for a memorable February in its Performing Arts Center. In response to the school’s vast Haitian population suffering from recent earthquakes in that country, a “Benefit for Haiti” will take place Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. The evening will showcase the best of [...]

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