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Cypress Bay High School Ranks Among Nation’s Best By Stacey Bomser
“The US News & World Report and Newsweek rankings confirm what we have always his has been an impressive year known at The Bay, that our students are some for Cypress Bay High School. Not only of the best and brightest in the country,” said did the school have the distinguished Cypress Bay Assistant Principal Jeff Nelson. “This privilege of having Vice President Joe Biden is testament to the hard work and dedication of deliver its commencement address, but it also our students, teachers and support staff.” received recognition in two national magazines Cypress Bay students excel in athletics as for being one of the country’s top high schools. well as academics, having earned over $8 million Out of the more than 22,000 public high schools in scholarships last year. The school offers 35 in the United States evaluated, Cypress Bay was sports teams ranging from football and soccer to #253 according to U.S. News & World Report and wrestling and golf. The Lightning have earned #237 in Newsweek. Both magazines evaluated high numerous regional and state championships. The schools on a number of criteria, including how boys soccer team was named ESPN’s National well students are prepared for college. Champion for 2012. It should come as no surprise that Cypress Bay The school also offers a variety clubs and ranked so high considering 98% of its students Cypress Bay High School may be one of the country’s largest high schools, but it is also one of the best. organizations to its student body including honor go on to college, and they are attending some societies, PRIDE, Best Buddies, and Robotics Club. of the most prestigious universities in the country. There are Cypress Bay alumni at The Cypress Bay Debate Team ranked among the top 1% of their competitive events Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, NYU, this year and qualified six competitors to the National Tournament of Champions. Its and many others, in addition to all of the Florida schools. Science Bowl team recently finished in the top 16 high school teams at the 2012 U.S. One of the criterion the magazines used to determine college readiness was how well Department of Energy National Science Bowl in Washington D.C. students did on college-level exams such as Advanced Placement. Last year, Cypress Pretty impressive for a school that just celebrated its 10th anniversary and is conBay administered 3,151 AP tests in 29 subjects to 1,511 students with a passing rate sistently one of the ten largest high schools in the country. With approximately 4,300 of 88.47%. Cypress Bay currently ranks number one in the nation in the number of students, Cypress Bay has the largest student population in Florida. Hispanic students who received a 3 or above on their AP exams.
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