Palm Beach Lakes Community High School
| Palm Beach Lakes Community High School | |
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3505 Shiloh Drive West Palm Beach, Florida 33407 United States |
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| Coordinates | 26°45′15″N 80°06′20″W / 26.754258°N 80.105611°WCoordinates: 26°45′15″N 80°06′20″W / 26.754258°N 80.105611°W |
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| Type | Public High School |
| Established | 1989 |
| School district | School District of Palm Beach County |
| School number | 1851 |
| Principal | Dr. David Alfonso |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1959 (2008–09) |
| Color(s) | Maroon and White |
| Slogan | "A New Tradition" |
| Nickname | Rams |
| Website | School website |
Palm Beach Lakes Community High School, also known as Lakes or PBL, is a coeducational public high school located in the Palm Beach Lakes community of West Palm Beach, Florida. It is under the jurisdiction of the School District of Palm Beach County. The school has the Teacher's Academy Program and serves as the Law Magnet for the entire county.
Once having an enrollment of over 3,500, Palm Beach Lakes was once one of the largest schools in its district. However, due to Florida's Class Size Amendment and the continuous building of high schools in the district, Palm Beach Lakes has a school enrollment of just over 3,000. However, it still remains one of the largest high schools in South Florida.
Palm Beach Lakes Community High School was established in 1989 after the closing of Twin Lakes High School (a merging of Palm Beach High School and Roosevelt High School) in downtown West Palm Beach. Palm Beach High School served as the original site of Palm Beach Junior College, now Palm Beach State College. County school superintendent Joe Youngblood and Howell Watkins, the principal of Palm Beach High School who later became the college's first dean, were instrumental in opening the college. The college's initial goal was to provide additional training to local high school graduates who were unable to find jobs during the Great Depression. PBJC was founded in 1933 and is the oldest community college in the state of Florida.
At the start of the 1970–1971 school year, Palm Beach High School merged with Roosevelt High School forming Twin Lakes High School. The latter, Roosevelt High, was established as the high school for African-Americans in West Palm Beach. They were athletic rivals with John F. Kennedy High School, the High School for African-Americans in Riviera Beach. This school would go on to become part of Suncoast Community High School. Roosevelt High was located at the site of the current Roosevelt Service Center, on the Northwest corner of Tamarind Avenue and L. A. Kirksey Street (15th Street). This site would also become known as Roosevelt Junior High School in the 1960s.
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