Rockledge High School is located in

Rockledge, Florida Rockledge is the oldest city in Brevard County, Florida. The city's population was 24,926 at the 2010 United States Census, and is part of the Palm Bay−Melbourne− Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Rockledge was officially ...

, USA, and is part of the

Brevard Public Schools Brevard Public Schools is a school district serving Brevard County, Florida, and based in Viera, Florida. In 2015, the district had about 74,000 students. 24% attend a school other than the one to which they are assigned. In 2009, the school boar ...

District.

History

Rockledge High School was founded in 1970 on the site formerly named Cocoa High School.

Academics

AICE Program

In 2005, Rockledge High School became the first in the school district to offer the Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE). In 2007, Rockledge was designated an International Fellowship Center, a special recognition only available to schools with an AICE program, making it only the 19th in the world and the 5th in the U.S. to gain this title.

Athletics

In 2009, the estimated income to fund sports at the school was $144,502, equivalent to $312 per athlete. Its primary sports rival is Cocoa High School.

American football

In 2013, Rockledge alumnus and NFL player

Laurent Robinson Laurent Robinson (born May 20, 1985) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons, St. Louis Rams, Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the thir ...

donated 15 Shockbox concussion sensors to the school. Rockledge was the first high school in Florida to use such technology to monitor its players, which will occur throughout the 2013-14 season in collaboration with researchers from the

University of South Florida The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. It is one of 12 members of the State University System of Florida. USF i ...

. The school won the state championship in 3A football in 2001 and 2002. Rockledge also won the state championship in 4A baseball in 2004.

Alumni

* Chris Laskowski - professional

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player *

Mel Mitchell Mel Mitchell III (born February 10, 1979) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the fifth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Western Kentucky. Mitchell also played for the New ...

- professional American football player * Drew Parrish - baseball player *

2003 - professional American football player * Raheim Sanders 2021 - American football player * Andrea Zuvich 2003 - historian and author.

Footnotes

{{authority control Brevard Public Schools Cocoa, Florida Educational institutions established in 1970 High schools in Brevard County, Florida Public high schools in Florida 1970 establishments in Florida