Alfred Ely Beach High School, known as Beach High School, is a

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, United States.

Beach Institute

In 1867, the Beach Institute was established by the

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(A.M.A.) and the

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with funds donated by

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, editor of ''

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''. The school was privately funded as a

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to provide support for newly freed African Americans. By 1874, the institute was appropriated by the Savannah-Chatham Board of Education for the purpose of providing free education to Savannah's African American citizenry. Although the Beach Institute closed its doors in 1915, it was reopened as an African American cultural center and is currently operated by the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation.

High School

The Beach name survives in the name of Alfred E. Beach High School. In 2010, Beach High School was selected as the recipient of "Outstanding Service By a High School" at the 38th annual Jefferson Awards, an honor for community service and volunteerism. At the end of the 2009–2010 academic year, the Savannah-Chatham County School District released the school's faculty and staff personnel, citing inadequate academic progress over the previous five years.

Enrollment

Beach High is open to residents of Chatham County in grades 9th through 12th.

Academics

Beach High students undertake a

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curriculum that includes four years of

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, and laboratory-based

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(

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and

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are required); three years of

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(most students opt for four) and foreign language; a semester each of introductory

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, and

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; and two lab-based technology courses. It offers students a broad selection of elective courses. Beach offers one of district's two allied health programs. Its also offers an Army Junior ROTC pathway with a full four year curriculum for both programs. Students who complete this program. The Allied Health Professions program partners with

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and

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to provide internships for Beach High students.

College preparatory

Accelerated students are also able to dual enroll with a local college offering college credit towards a degree.

Special education

The school has special education programs for the following areas: * Learning disabled * Behavior disorder * Moderately intellectually handicapped * Mildly intellectually handicapped * Severely intellectually handicapped * Profoundly intellectually handicapped

Extracurricular activities

State championships

Georgia Interscholastic Association

The school won the boys' state basketball championship in 1953, 1963, 1964, and 1965.

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The school won a boys' state basketball championship in 1967 (the first year that African-Americans were allowed to play in the Georgia High School Association) under coach

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. The girls' basketball team won a state championship in 2000 and 2017.

Notable alumni

References

External links

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Savannah-Chatnam County Public School System website
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