Gulf Breeze High School is a public secondary school located at 675 Gulf Breeze Parkway in Gulf Breeze, Florida. It is one of eleven high schools of the

Santa Rosa County School District Santa Rosa County District Schools (SRCDS), also known as Santa Rosa County School District, is the organization responsible for the administration of public schools in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The district currently administers 15 elementary ...

and the only high school in the city of Gulf Breeze. For 2020, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Gulf Breeze High #1 (out of 29) in Pensacola, FL Metro Area High Schools and #112 (out of 1,088) in Florida High Schools.
''U.S. News & World Report''

History

It opened in 1971. It had 600 students in 1971, about 1,300 circa 1999, and 1,410 in 2000.

Facility

The school is contained within five structures and encompasses both sides of U.S. Route 98. In addition to a large main entrance building, Gulf Breeze High consists of an Art and Drama Department building, a Foreign Language Department building, an ESE building, and a Band and Music Department building. Additional adjacent facilities include six tennis courts, basketball courts, a baseball complex, three practice fields for soccer, football and lacrosse, and a large stadium. On August 4, 2010, a $1.5 millionBrannon, Pam. "GBHS OK’d for New Combo Field House." Gulf Breeze News. Web. 13 Sept. 2011. . field house addition was completed.Thompson, Jason. "New Field House Addition Completed." Gulf Breeze News. 5 Aug. 2010. Web. 13 Sept. 2011. . In 2014, new baseball and softball field houses were completed, in 2015 the baseball complex received a face lift so all buildings would match and be aesthetically pleasing and coordinate in color; the spectator stands were covered for sun protection and in 2016 a new softball indoor batting facility was complete

http://news.gulfbreezenews.com/news/2015-10-01/Sports/Softball_looking_to_build_indoor_batting_cage.html] Adjacent to the high school ar
Gulf Breeze Elementary School
and Gulf Breeze Middle School, creating a large educational campus in the heart of the small Gulf Breeze peninsula. The high quality of all three schools and the geographically limited land mass of Gulf Breeze are often credited in combination for bolstering property values on the peninsula.

Communities served

Most high school-aged children in

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in Escambia County attend Gulf Breeze High, even though they are zoned to

Escambia County School District The Escambia County School District (ECSD) is the organization responsible for the administration of public schools in all of Escambia County, Florida, in the United States. The district currently administers 35 elementary schools, nine middle sch ...

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Student Body

As of 2017, 85% are

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, non-

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, 6% are Hispanic, 5% are

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, 3% are Native American/

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, and less than 1% are

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, non-Hispanic."Florida Great Schools". Web. 28 Dec. 2017. . In 2016, 21.4% of GBHS students were eligible for free or reduced lunch programs."Gulf Breeze High School, Florida Department of Education SPAR." Web. 28 December 2017. . In 2016, 64.7% of GBHS teachers held a bachelor's degree, 33.8% held a master's degree, and 1.5% held a Doctorate.

Sports

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

* Football *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

* Cross Country * Dance *

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...

Band Band or BAND may refer to: Places *Bánd, a village in Hungary *Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania *Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, I ...

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* Soccer *

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* Girls volleyball

Extracurricular activities

The school offers various clubs pertaining to a variety of interests. Each year GBHS hosts 'Club Rush' - an event located in the school's media center that allows incoming freshman and sophomore students to learn more about the current clubs available."‘Club Rush’ gives students door to involvement." www.gulfbreezenews.com. Web. 5 Dec. 2011. . In order for a club to be established, it must be sponsored by a member of the Gulf Breeze High faculty. Examples of specific nationwide organizations active in Gulf Breeze High include Art Honor Society, French Honor Society, Latin Honor Society,

National Technical Honor Society The National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) is an honor society for outstanding career and technical students of workforce vocational education institutions in the United States. Overview NTHS began in 1984 as the National Vocational-Technical Hon ...

Mu Alpha Theta Mu Alpha Theta () is the United States mathematics honor society for high school and two-year college students. In June 2015, it served over 108,000 student members in over 2,200 chapters in the United States and in 20 foreign countries. Its mai ...

, National Honor Society,

Spanish Honor Society Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

, Quill & Scroll, International Thespian Society.

Grade-change scandal

An investigation in 2019 revealed that former Gulf Breeze High School Assistant Principal Tori Baker changed her daughter's grades for three periods during the 2018-2019 school year, improving her class ranking from seventh to second. Following the Santa Rosa County School District Superintendent's recommendation that she be fired, Baker resigned. The investigation also found that Principal Danny Brothers allegedly knew the student had requested the grades be changed and failed to prevent a conflict of interest between the assistant principal and her daughter."Santa Rosa school board appoints new GBHS assistant principal after grade-change scandal." www.pnj.com. Web. 23 Oct. 2019. .

Notable alumni

Politics, law, and military

Steve Mulroy,

University of Memphis } The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering, the Center for Ea ...

law professor, former Shelby County, Tennessee County commissioner

Sports

* Ben Lively,

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pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

, class of 2010 *

Doug Baldwin Douglas Dewayne Baldwin Jr. (born September 21, 1988) is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Stanford and was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2011. Baldwin is the Seahawks third ...

NFL wide receiver, class of 2007 * Jason McKie, former professional football fullback, class of 1998 *

Keith Savage Keith Savage (born August 9, 1985 in Gulf Breeze, Florida) is a former American soccer player who is currently the head coach of the Tampa Bay Rowdies USL Academy team. Career College and Amateur Savage attended Gulf Breeze High School in Gul ...

professional soccer Association football is the world's most popular sport and is worth US$600 billion worldwide. By the end of the 20th century it was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries. Around the world, the sport is played at a professi ...

player, class of 2003

Music, media, and art

* Abigail Spencer, actress, class of 1999 *

Ashley Brown Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982) is an American singer and actress who is best known for playing the titular character in the United States national tour and Broadway productions of '' Mary Poppins''. Early life Brown was born February 3, 19 ...

, actress, class of 2000 *

Candace Bailey Candace Kaye Bailey (born May 20, 1982) is an American actress and television personality best known as a co-host of the former television programs ''U-Pick Live'' on Nickelodeon and ''Attack of the Show!'' on G4. Early life Bailey was born i ...

, actress, class of 2001 *Claire Lautier, actress, class of 1988 * Gwendolyn Oxenham, writer, film producer, former soccer player, class of 1999

External links

Gulf Breeze High School websiteSanta Rosa School DistrictGulf Breeze Sound Wave Band

Notes

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