Seven seniors from Pace High School’s elite Spartan Sword and Shield Honors program have been accepted into 31 colleges and universities across the United States. The program is structured to prepare intellectually gifted and diligent students for Ivy League and Top 10 universities through a set four-year track of AP, honors, and dual enrollment classes.  Since the program’s inception in 2011, Spartan Sword and Shield...

A perfect score and superior rating was awarded to the Spanish Lake Elementary School Recorder Group which performed at the recent Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition under the division of Performing Arts Instrumental. The students were under the direction of Diana Garcia, music teacher. They performed a medley of TV songs. The Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition partners with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools to promote student...

  The Superintendent's Honors Orchestra is a part of the Miami-Dade County Honors Music Festival that students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools audition to be a part of at either the elementary or secondary level in orchestra, band, and choir.   Miami Lakes K-8 Center students Ariana Rejas and Francis Dalipe, both eighth graders auditioned for the first time and were selected to this elite group of string...

  School for Advanced Studies (SAS), a nationally recognized collegiate high school, will be opening a new campus at Miami Dade College (MDC) West Campus for the 2016-2017 school year. Current Miami-Dade County 10th-graders with a minimum unweighted 3.0 grade point average are invited to apply, and may become eligible for admission upon satisfying all program requirements, including earning minimum SAS college entrance exam scores....

  Barbara Goleman High School awarded senior football player Antonio Rodriguez the fifth annual Ricky Quintanilla Scholarship award for 2016. The award honors the memory of late Goleman football coach who died of cancer in 2011. As an offensive lineman, Rodriguez was a big part of the Gator’s running game, as the team averaged the most rushing yards in South Florida, according to head coach Ariel Cribeiro. Rodriguez, who’s...