Olympic Heights Community High School
| Olympic Heights Community High School | |
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20101 Lyons Road South Florida Florida, Palm Beach County 33434 United States Of America |
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| Coordinates | 26°22′43″N 80°11′13″W / 26.378544°N 80.186824°WCoordinates: 26°22′43″N 80°11′13″W / 26.378544°N 80.186824°W |
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| School type | Public, high school |
| Established | 1991 |
| School district | Palm Beach County School District |
| Authority | Dave Clark |
| School number | 2181 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 2666 |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Team name | Lions |
| Rival | West Boca Raton Bulls, Spanish River Sharks |
| Newspaper | The Torch |
| Website | www |
Olympic Heights Community High School is a public high school located at 20101 Lyons Road, serving west Boca Raton, parts of Boynton Beach and parts of Delray Beach as part of the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida.
Olympic Heights offers a number of "academies", or specializations within the school itself. These academies are early childhood and teacher education, engineering and technology (Project Lead The Way), hospitality and tourism, and finance and resort management.
Students applying to any of the programs must meet the following eligibility criteria:
2.0 GPA (Not required for tourism and resort management)
Three favorable teacher recommendations (teacher recommendations must be sent to the school to which student is applying)
There are also two in-house academies: culinary and fashion design.
This school has a fantastic Chinese department. They have won the state championship twice in a row, not only being the first public school to win, but the one second too. They have beat over 20 private schools from all over Florida.
Although the school's sports teams have captured a number of state titles, Olympic Heights is perhaps best known for the girls volleyball team's seven straight state titles from 1996-2002.
Olympic Heights football achieved 10-0 in its second year of existence (1992) and 10-0 in its 3rd season (1993). Ultimately, Olympic Heights tied a Florida state record of 26 straight regular season victories from 1992-1994.
The Olympic Heights wrestling team has gone undefeated three times (1999, 2004, and 2008), been Palm Beach County champions four times, district champions eleven times and just won their first region title in 2012.
In 2004 the Olympic Heights basketball team made it to the final four in the 6A division for the state of Florida. The Lions played the second-ranked team in the state (Palm Beach Lakes) and won by over 20 points to make it into the final four. The Lions finished in third place after losing to opponents South Miami.
The Olympic Heights hip-hop dance team was started by Rachel Bentley and Dara Smith, two students, and was awarded first place and an elite gold medal at the StarPower dance competition in 2004.
The Torch is a newspaper run by the students of OHHS.
In 2014, a daily updated news site was created by the students of OHHS. The site is ohtorch.com
The Olympic Heights Mighty Lion Marching Band won the state championship two years in a row. In the 2004 marching season, the Lions won the Class A championship with their show titled "Category V" and won once again in 2005 with their show entitled "Vesuvius".
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