Myers Park High School
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Charlotte, North Carolina United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | A World of Difference |
| Established | 1951 |
| School district | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools |
| Principal | Mark Bosco |
| Faculty | 162 |
| Enrollment | 2863 |
| Color(s) | Kelly green, gray, black and white |
| Mascot | Mustang |
| Information | (980) 343-5800 |
| Website | schools |
Myers Park High School is a High school in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The school opened its doors in 1951.
The Newsweek Magazine has ranked Myers Park in the Top 40 Best High Schools in the United States, for three consecutive years. Most notably, in 2003, Myers Park was ranked the 7th best high school in the country by Newsweek. The Ranking of America's High Schools takes place every year among 1,950 high schools in the United States.
Myers Park High School is located at 2400 Colony Road in the Myers Park neighborhood. Two entrances are on Colony Road; a third is on Runnymede Lane. The front circle of the school contains a garden housing a brick wall in the shape of a pentagon. In the middle of the front circle stand two marble statues as a monument to the World Trade Center Towers, dedicated in 2002 by Senator Elizabeth Dole.
The campus is centered around a quadrangle, commonly known as "the quad". The Student Center (SC), Math Building, Social Studies Building, Auditorium, and Language Arts Building (LA) all open onto this large grassy area where seniors are allowed to eat lunch. Due to a littering problem, underclassmen are barred from doing so. Behind the LA building are science and vocation buildings, as well as mobile classrooms. The campus was built in the collegiate mold, with the entire campus revolving around an open quad area. The campus is about 62 acres (250,000 m2) with 13 individual buildings. Unique to high schools in the region, Myers Park has a stand-alone auto-tech building.
The debate team won the State Championship eight out of the last eleven years.
The Myers Park Hoofprint, the student paper, was named a First Place newspaper by the American Scholastic Press Association in 2008. The ASPA also named one of the Hoofprint's front pages a First Place Front Page, one of only six pages in the nation to be so honored.
The yearbook, the Myers Park Mustang, was named a First Place Yearbook by the American Scholastic Press Association in 2009.
The Myers Park Pegasus is the school's literary-art magazine. The 2008–2009 edition of the magazine earned various awards: the highest award ranking from the National Council of Teachers of English, the gold medal from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the first place award from the American Scholastic Press Association, an award of distinction from the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association and the first place prize from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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