Cooper City High School

Classes were first held in 1971 behind city hall on SW 90th Avenue. The original buildings on Stirling Road were completed in time for the 1972 school year. Over time, Building 1, the main academic building, started to deteriorate with roof leaks, inefficient air conditioning units and water intrusion.[6] A new 36-classroom building opened during the 2007–2008 school year.[7] This building was followed by a new cafeteria which opened in May during the 2009–2010 school year. An entirely new building to replace Building 1 started construction during the 2012–2013 school year and opened in November of the 2013–2014 school year, complete with new general purpose classrooms, a science wing, a new childcare building, business labs, an automotive facility, and new offices. Building 1 was demolished and is now two grass fields, one of which is used for student parking. The back part of the original school (the media center, the music wing, the early childcare wing, the auditorium, the gym and the locker rooms) have either been remodeled, left as is, or repurposed..

Cooper City High serves:[8] Cooper City and parts of Davie.[9][10]

Some areas are jointly zoned to Cooper City High and West Broward High School, including:[8][11] sections of Cooper City and Southwest Ranches.[12][13]

The AP participation rate is 61 percent.[14] Each AP class awards six points for an A, five points for a B, four points for a C, one point for a D, or zero points for an F to the student's weighted GPA per quarter.

Cooper City High School offers the following AP courses as of the 2017–2018 school year. Courses marked with an asterisk after their names typically require doubling-up, with students getting honors credit during the first semester and AP credit during the second semester.[15]

• Biology
• Calculus (AB & BC)
• Chemistry
• Computer Science A
• Computer Science Principles
• English Language & Composition
• English Literature & Composition
• Environmental Science
• European History
• Human Geography
• Music Theory
• Physics 1
• Psychology
• Research
• Seminar
• Spanish Language
• Spanish Literature
• Statistics
• Studio Art (2-D* and Drawing*)
• U.S. Government & Politics*
• U.S. History
• World History

In addition, students are eligible to dual-enroll in courses at Broward College. Dual-enrollment courses can be taken over the summer break or during the school year. Sophomores, juniors and seniors are eligible to use dual-enrollment courses to replace the sixth and/or seventh period slots in their class schedules, however sophomores are not allowed to leave campus early.

Cooper City has earned distinctions in its baseball, cheerleading, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling programs. The softball team has won district, regional, and in 2009, state. In the 2010 football season, Cooper City won district for the first time in the school's history. Cooper City Football won district for a second time in 2011, beating the former national champion, St. Thomas Aquinas, for the first time since 1972 in a 21–16 victory.[16] The Boys' Tennis Team was a 3-time FHSAA State Qualifier (1986, 1987 and 1988) winning the overall FHSAA 4A State Tennis Team Championships in 1988 and with it, the school's first ever state team championship.[17][18] The sports currently offered at the school (as of the 2013–2014 school year) include the following:[19]

• Baseball (JV and Varsity)
• Basketball (Boys' JV and Varsity, Girls' Varsity)
• Cheerleading (JV Football and Varsity Football)
• Cross Country
• Flag Football (Girls)
• Football (JV and Varsity)
• Golf (Boys and Girls)
• Lacrosse (Boys and Girls)
• Soccer (Boys' Varsity, Girls' JV and Varsity)
• Softball (JV and Varsity)
• Swimming/Diving (Boys and Girls)
• Tennis (Boys and Girls) FHSAA 4A Boys' Team Champions - 1988[20][18]
• Track (Boys and Girls)
• Volleyball (Boys and Girls)
• Water Polo (Boys and Girls)
• Wrestling

Cowboy Television, (typically shortened to CTV) is the school's news magazine and variety show. It was developed in 1997 by the school's television and mass media class. At that time, the show aired on a monthly schedule.[21] The show now airs every Friday via an internal broadcasting system. Considered to be "America's #1 High School Weekly News Program" by the Student Television Network, the CTV program has been the recipient of various awards.[22]

The marching band, known as the Sound of Pride,[23] attends various competitions, parades, and community events. In recent years, the program has prepared two field shows: one with simpler drill, more popular music, and sometimes dancing for the football game crowd[24] as well as a competition or "comp" show, which has complicated drill with music and movements that help to convey the theme being portrayed by the performers (otherwise known as a "corps-style" show).[25][26]

The program has marched in several parades, some of which include: 1991 when the band marched in the Channel 6 Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1992 when the band marched in the 58th annual King Orange Jamboree Parade,[27] 1997 when the band first went to the London New Year's Day Parade, and 2015 when the band marched in the Davie Orange Blossom Parade. In 2016, the band participated in the Allstate Sugar Bowl band competition, parade, and halftime show in New Orleans. They won the competition, sweeping all captions.. The ensemble became FMBC Class 4A State Champions in 2008. In 2009 the wind ensemble attended the Music For All/Bands of America National Concert Festival.[28]

As of the 2017–2018 school year, the total enrollment was 2,279. The ethnic makeup of the school was 48.4% White, 6.97% Black, 32.2% Hispanic, 6.39% Asian or Pacific Islander, 5.13% Multiracial, and 0.83% Native American or Native Alaskan.[29]

• Larry Boone, recording artist, musician
• Bobby Estalella, Major League Baseball catcher
• Olindo Mare, American football placekicker for the Carolina Panthers
• Krissy Taylor, model, younger sister of Niki Taylor
• Niki Taylor, model

• Cooper City High School website