North Miami Beach Senior High School

North Miami Beach Senior High School
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Location
North Miami Beach , Florida 33162 USA
Information
School type	Public, high school
Established	1971
School district	Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Principal	Raymond L. Fontana address = 1247 NE 167 Street
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	2,485
Campus type	Suburban
Color(s)	Red, White, and Blue
Mascot	Chargers
Website	nmb.dadeschools.net

North Miami Beach Senior High School is a secondary school located at 1247 NE 167 Street in North Miami Beach, Florida, USA; its principal is Raymond L. Fontana. North Miami Beach was built in 1971 as an overcrowding reliever school for North Miami High School to the south at 800 N.E. 137 Street, and Miami Norland High School to the northwest at 1050 N.W. 195 Street. The school has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.

North Miami Beach Senior High School was a pioneer in school construction, being the first high school in Dade County to be built with no windows, and was, therefore, completely air-conditioned.

History

NMBHS's style of education, with no traditional letter grades, created tension within middle and upper-middle class North Dade (County) families, whose older children had attended and graduated from traditional Dade County schools. They were not happy that their younger children would be placed in an experimental school that eschewed the traditions the parents knew, as the Miami Herald reported at the time. However, by the time the school was four years old, the non-traditional approach had been abandoned.

North Miami Beach also has a Biomedical and Environmental Advancement Magnet program (BEAM) available to any students in the district. The program gives higher education credits to students wishing to pursue a career in medicine or environmental sciences.

In the summer of 2005, the school added a two story building to its campus

Demographics

North Miami Beach HS is 69% Black, 22% Hispanic, 6% White non-Hispanic, and 3% Asian.

Sports

Until a regional high school football stadium was built in the 1990s at the (northern) Biscayne Bay campus of Florida International University off Biscayne Boulevard and N.E. 151 Street, the NMB Chargers football team played both its home and away games at the northern regional football stadium, Traz Powell Stadium. Located at the then Miami-Dade North Community College campus, now called [Miami Dade College]], it was more than seven miles away from the NMB campus. it has 24 acres.

Sports rivalries

NMB's athletic rivals are North Miami Senior High School and Dr. Michael M. Krop High School.

Prior to the opening of Krop, the following schools were the most intense rivals: Men's Soccer- North Miami Senior High School, especially games at the Pioneers' home field, the scene of a historic Ciro Martinez-led last-second Charger win in 1976 that helped fuel the Chargers' run to the Florida state championship.

The Vikings of Miami Norland Senior High School, who inflicted a 1977 loss on the Chargers, knocking them out of the Florida state playoffs at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, and ending the Chargers' hope of winning back-to-back Florida state soccer championships. The Vikings eventually finished as the state runner-up that year.

Women's Gymnastics-

• North Miami Senior High School always proved tough competition when twin sisters Debbie Reiser and Donna Reiser were top-flight All-Dade gymnasts there between 1975-79. Ultimately, NMBs greater depth and all-around ability always won the day by the last event led by Lisa Martin and Karen Ginsburg.
• The toughest competition for the NMB Charger gymnastics team during their undefeated glory days of the late 1970s under head coach Peter Saponaro -himself an All-American and co-captain of an NCAA Championship Men's team at Pennsylvania State University in the 1960s- came against the Trojans of H-ML, Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School, when H-ML dominated the high school sports world of Miami.

Notable alumni

• Garcelle Beauvais - actress (who portrays Attorney Valerie Heywood in the TV program NYPD Blue)
• EJ Biggers - Cornerback for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Gwen Cooper - author
• Louis Delmas - Safety for Detroit Lions
• Perry Farrell (Perry Bernstein), Rockstar - Janes' Addiction, Porno for Pyro's, etc.
• Eric Garcia - author
• Joey Green - author
• Max Jean-Gilles - Philadelphia Eagles
• Bobby Kemp - former NFL strong safety for Cincinnati Bengals from 1981-86, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1987. Started in Super Bowl as rookie.
• Jordan Lund - actor who has appeared in over 75 films and tv shows as well as broadway and off-broadway plays.
• Brad Meltzer - author
• Steve Nicosia -MLB Catcher, 8 seasons, 1978-1985 Pittsburgh,San Francisco,Montreal,Toronto. First NMB alum to play in MLB World Series in 1979, catching Game 7 as rookie.
• Del. Kirill Reznik (D-39), politician, Member, Maryland State House of Delegates
• Alfred Spellman - film Producer (Cocaine Cowboys) (Raw Deal: A Question of Consent)
• Mike Sullivan - former NFL offensive lineman for Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys, currently offensive line coach for the San Diego Chargers
• Robert Yonover (Robert Yonover, Ph.d.) - Scientist/Inventor ("RescueStreamer" for military) and Author ("Hardcore Inventing")
• Jonathan Zaslow - sports radio show host for 790 The Ticket in South Florida.

Awards and achievements

• Men's Soccer: Florida State Champions in 1976 under head coach Victor Cappillo
• Women's Gymnastics: Greater Miami Athletic Conference (County) Champions 1976-1979, State Champions, State Invitational Championship meets, 1979 and 1982 under head coach Peter Saponaro
• Mens's Water Polo: State Champions in 1982
• Wrestling: State Champions in 1994 under head coach Bill McDonnell
• Robotics Regional Champions in 2003

See also

• Miami-Dade County Public Schools
• High school
• Education in the United States

External links

• Miami-Dade County public schools
• North Miami Beach Senior High School