Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "John A. Ferguson Senior High School is a magnet and academy high school located at 15900 S.W. 56th Street in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. This Miami-Dade County public school mainly serves the outer portion of Miami's West Kendall suburb. The 2015-2016 principal is Rafael Villalobos, supported by an administration team including Mindy Acosta Leon, Kathryn Guerra, and Stanley Thompkins. The school's purpose is to promote a culture of academic excellence by providing equitable, effective, appropriate, and engaging instructional strategies and by using data to drive instruction.Construction began on Ferguson in March 2002. It was built to alleviate overcrowding at G. Holmes Braddock High School and Felix Varela High School, which had reached populations of over 5,000 students. The school began in Summer 2003, with only ninth graders. For the first three nine-week periods, the students were housed at G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School, in the back portables. John A. Ferguson High School now has one of the highest student populations in Florida, at over 5,000. Ferguson is a certified Magnet Program School in Florida, and has six academy programs: International Baccalaureate (IB), Information Technology (IT), International Business & Finance, Medical & Biomedical Skills, Design & Architecture, and Hospitality and Tourism. These academies are small learning communities that offer students career-related curricula in their subjects of choice. The school is organized by a A/B block schedule which allows students to take eight courses every school year, attending four classes every other day. This gives students the opportunity to take more courses and experience a larger variety of curriculum. Along with exceptional academic opportunities, John A. Ferguson provides students a wide variety of athletic and extracurricular activities. Fall sports are bowling, cross-country, football, golf, swimming and volleyball. Winter sports are basketball, soccer and wrestling. Spring sports are badminton, baseball, softball, tennis, track, and volleyball. The school's activities include Fusion Dance Troupe, Ferguson's Broadcasting Network, cheerleading, The Talon school newspaper, SOAR school yearbook, Future Business Leaders of America, Model United Nations, National Honor Society, Music, and Drama. Many Ferguson graduates have continued their education at prestigious universities such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Barnard College/Columbia University, Amherst College, Boston College, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, NYU, UChicago, Brown, MIT, Dartmouth, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and UBoston. For underclassmen in the IB program, the courseload includes Pre-IB classes. Students going into their junior year start the regular IB diploma courses.The school is named after a local reverend who graduated from Carver Senior High School in 1941 and served with the United States Navy for twenty-one years during World War II and the Korean Conflict.Along the backstretch of the school is 162nd Avenue, which has been renamed Falcons Avenue. John A. Ferguson Senior High School is ranked as one of America's best high schools, with a school grade of an \"A\" over recent years."@en }
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- John_A._Ferguson_High_School abstract "John A. Ferguson Senior High School is a magnet and academy high school located at 15900 S.W. 56th Street in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. This Miami-Dade County public school mainly serves the outer portion of Miami's West Kendall suburb. The 2015-2016 principal is Rafael Villalobos, supported by an administration team including Mindy Acosta Leon, Kathryn Guerra, and Stanley Thompkins. The school's purpose is to promote a culture of academic excellence by providing equitable, effective, appropriate, and engaging instructional strategies and by using data to drive instruction.Construction began on Ferguson in March 2002. It was built to alleviate overcrowding at G. Holmes Braddock High School and Felix Varela High School, which had reached populations of over 5,000 students. The school began in Summer 2003, with only ninth graders. For the first three nine-week periods, the students were housed at G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School, in the back portables. John A. Ferguson High School now has one of the highest student populations in Florida, at over 5,000. Ferguson is a certified Magnet Program School in Florida, and has six academy programs: International Baccalaureate (IB), Information Technology (IT), International Business & Finance, Medical & Biomedical Skills, Design & Architecture, and Hospitality and Tourism. These academies are small learning communities that offer students career-related curricula in their subjects of choice. The school is organized by a A/B block schedule which allows students to take eight courses every school year, attending four classes every other day. This gives students the opportunity to take more courses and experience a larger variety of curriculum. Along with exceptional academic opportunities, John A. Ferguson provides students a wide variety of athletic and extracurricular activities. Fall sports are bowling, cross-country, football, golf, swimming and volleyball. Winter sports are basketball, soccer and wrestling. Spring sports are badminton, baseball, softball, tennis, track, and volleyball. The school's activities include Fusion Dance Troupe, Ferguson's Broadcasting Network, cheerleading, The Talon school newspaper, SOAR school yearbook, Future Business Leaders of America, Model United Nations, National Honor Society, Music, and Drama. Many Ferguson graduates have continued their education at prestigious universities such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Barnard College/Columbia University, Amherst College, Boston College, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, NYU, UChicago, Brown, MIT, Dartmouth, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and UBoston. For underclassmen in the IB program, the courseload includes Pre-IB classes. Students going into their junior year start the regular IB diploma courses.The school is named after a local reverend who graduated from Carver Senior High School in 1941 and served with the United States Navy for twenty-one years during World War II and the Korean Conflict.Along the backstretch of the school is 162nd Avenue, which has been renamed Falcons Avenue. John A. Ferguson Senior High School is ranked as one of America's best high schools, with a school grade of an \"A\" over recent years.".