Avon Park High School

Posted November 4, 2008

Currently I have 2 sons at Avon Park High, grades 11 and 9. Although their personalities are as different as night and day both have easily found a place to fit in at APH. The school offers a wide range of sport teams, extra curricular activities, and advanced academic classes. The staff is friendly and administration is cooperative.
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Posted September 19, 2008

My daughter is now a junior at APHS & she is doing very well. She finished her online class through FLVS & is taking 2 A.P. classes this year. I have just joined the SAC to become more involved in her education & in this community. If you want things to change then you must choose to do something about it-not just complain. APHS (in my opinion) is an excellent high school. My daughter is planning on doing her first 2 years of college at SFCC & then possibly moving on to UCF. I have no doubt in my mind that she will succeed. I credit her experience in the Highlands County school system as the main part of the reason. They help build a foundation for success.
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Posted March 19, 2008

Serious problems abound at this school. They are struggling with a high percentage of ESL students who administration refurses to separate into special classes to help them learn english. So, what my kids found was that many classes lost half of their daily class time since the teacher would give half a class' lecture in english, then repeat it in SPANISH for the non-english speakers in the class! When we complained about this, they found nothing wrong with the way the class was being conducted! Effectively, our kids received half a class! They didn't care that they wouldn't finish the material for the term...they'd just 'get as far as they could'. Hispanic teachers often had a clear bias to the hispanic kids. The only thing that saved my two boys was the availablility of a dual enrollment program with the local Community College. That saved their academic career. Bad Administration!!!
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Posted February 15, 2008

I love this school. It's the best school I've gone to. I used to not like it untill I switched to Bartow High School. Now I've realized that I love Avon Park High School. I should be returning to that school on Tuesday.
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