Mandarin High School

For The School in Jacksonville, Florida, see Mandarin High School.

Mandarin High School
Location
4831 Greenland Road Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Information
Type	Secondary School
Motto	"Go Mustangs"
Established	1990
Principal	Dr. Donna Richardson
Grades	9th Grade–12th Grade
Enrollment	Around 3,000
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	Green and Orange
Mascot	Mustang
Newspaper	Mustang Times
Yearbook	Exemplar
Website	Mandarin High School

Mandarin High School is a public senior high school in Duval County Public Schools district located on Greenland Road in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2010, Newsweek ranked it 96th on its list of the best public high schools in the United States.^[1] In 2008, U.S. News & World Report ranked it as the 15th of "America's Best High Schools".^[2]

Demographics

Mandarin High School is considered to be a new school for the County of Duval in Jacksonville, Florida; this school has a "sister school" named First Coast High School which shares similar history and ranking status in terms of academic levels in the region.^{[citation needed]}

Mandarin High School enrolls students, not only from the Mandarin Area but from around Duval. As of 2010, Mandarin High School is the second largest high school in the Duval County following Sandalwood High School; there had to be a new school called, Atlantic Coast High School that had to be opened for the 2010-2011 School Year to lower the enrollment at both Mandarin and Sandalwood High School.^[3]

Academics

Mandarin High School offers the Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) program along with Advanced Placement^[4]

Athletics

Mandarin High School offers a variety of different sports; the sports at Mandarin High School run for three sports seasons: Fall, Winter, or Spring, excluding cheer leading which is year-round sport at Mandarin High School. The Athletics Director is Tammie Talley.^[5] Mandarin High School has an outdoor pool which is used by the athletic teams and for those in physical education classes during the academic year; the pool is available for available as a neighborhood pool it operated by the City of Jacksonville Parks & Recreation Department during the summer months.^[6]

• Boys' Sports
  • Basketball
  • Baseball
  • Golf
  • Cross Country
  • Football
  • Soccer
  • Swimming
  • Track and Field
  • Tennis
  • Wrestling
  • Lacrosse

• Girls' Sports
  • Basketball
  • Fast Pitch Softball
  • Golf
  • Cross Country
  • Volleyball
  • Soccer
  • Swimming
  • Track and Field
  • Tennis
  • Weight Lifting
  • Lacrosse
  • Flag Football
  • Slow Pitch Softball
  • Bowling
  • Cheerleading

Activities

• • Brain Bowl
  • Chess Club
  • Chorus
  • Drama Club
  • Junior Women
  • Dance
  • Interact Club
  • Key Club
  • Marching Band

H.O.S.A.

• • Medical Education Club
  • National Honor Society
  • JROTC
  • Senior Club
  • Spanish Club
  • Orange Ink (newspaper)
  • Student Council
  • Unheard Voices Poetry Club
  • Young Activists Club
  • Sixth Man Club
  • Spanish National Honor Society
  • Exemplar
  • AICE Magazine

Notable alumni

• Fred Weary^[7]
• Jeff Chandler^[7]

References

1. ^ "America's Best High Schools: The FAQ" Newsweek Magazine, June 13, 2010
2. ^ US News and World Report Gold Medal Schools
3. ^ Burmeister, Caren: “New Boundaries, New School Changes Enrollment” Florida Times-Union, July 30, 2010
4. ^ Mandarin High School's Excellence Program
5. ^ Mandarin High School's Athletics
6. ^ Mandarin High School's Swimming Pool
7. ^ ^{a b} Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players, Fred Weary. Retrieved Marsh 4, 2011.

External links

• Mandarin High School Official Website
• Duval County Public Schools Official Website

Coordinates: 30°09′46″N 81°35′04″W / 30.162835°N 81.584575°W / 30.162835; -81.584575