Vero Beach High School

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Vero Beach High School
Address
1707 16th Street Vero Beach , Florida 32960-3626 United States
Coordinates	27°37′46″N 80°24′14″W / 27.62954°N 80.403857°W / 27.62954; -80.403857
Information
Type	Public high school
Motto	VBHS... Together We Achieve Success
Established	1905; 119 years ago (1905) (unofficially) 1925; 99 years ago (1925) (officially) 1963; 61 years ago (1963) (Main Campus Location)
School district	Indian River County School District
Principal	Shawn O'Keefe
Teaching staff	123.80 (FTE) (2022–23)[1]
Grades	9–12
Gender	Co-educational
Enrollment	2,847 (2022–23)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	23.00 (2022–23)[1]
Campuses	FLC/Main Campus
Campus size	77 acres (310,000 m2)
Color(s)	Red, White, Black
Slogan	It's Great to be a Fighting Indian
Athletics conference	FHSAA Class 7A Region 3 District 11
Mascot	Fighting Indians
Rival	Sebastian River High School
Website	vbhs.indianriverschools.org

Vero Beach High School (VBHS) is a 9–12 public high school in Vero Beach, Florida, United States that was established in 1925. The school is operated by the Indian River County School District, and it's similar to Keyport High School in design.

The campus of VBHS encompasses approximately 77 acres (310,000 m²), which includes the Freshman Learning Center and main campus areas. The combination of school enrollment and the size of the physical plant makes VBHS the largest high school in Indian River County. The Freshman Learning Center serves about 750 9th grade students.^{[citation needed]}

Vero Beach High School can trace its timeline back to the class of 1905, where students learned in a one-room schoolhouse. In 1925, the first official Vero Beach High School opened. It was located about a half-mile north of the current location, where Vero Beach High School's Freshman Learning Center stands today.^{[citation needed]}

After Vero Beach High School moved to its present-day location in 1963, the old high school became Vero Beach Junior High School, and VBHS took on a new official name, Vero Beach Senior High School.^{[citation needed]}

In 1977, the junior high school was becoming insufficient for housing all of the county's junior high schoolers, and was torn down to make way for a new, smaller school, Indian River Middle 8 - the present-day home of the Freshman Learning Center, and soon to become a middle school again, once all the renovations at Vero Beach High School are complete. Prior to the completion of Sebastian River High School in 1994, Vero Beach High School was the only public high school in Indian River County.^{[citation needed]}

Vero Beach High School completed a three-year, $51 million remodeling project in 2009.^[2]

Shawn O'Keefe took over for the 2012–2013 school year.^{[citation needed]}

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Vero Beach High School has an AP Program, a Dual Enrollment program with Indian River State College, an Honors program, and regular level classes.

The Dual Enrollment Program is offered with Indian River State College to give students the opportunity to take college-level classes at the college, online, or during the summer. The school also offers career and technical classes.

On January 1, 2019, the Vero Beach High School Fighting Indians Band performed in the 2019 London New Year's Day Parade in London. This was the first time the band, in its 90 years existence as of June 2019, had gone overseas to Europe and Internationally traveled. This had also brought some attention to the high school and the city of Vero Beach due to the number of viewers at the parade and on TV.^[3] On October 25, 2019, the Vero Beach High School Fighting Indians Football team in a 28-3 win over Fort Pierce Central set the state record for most consecutive regular-season wins with 61 straight.^[4] In October 2022, The football team was featured on NBC's Today show.^[5]

Spanning the period of 2006-2015, the VBHS Girls Lacrosse team won the statewide Lacrosse Championship every consecutive season.^[6] This nine year dynasty was unprecedented in the sport and extremely rare when compared across all Floridian high school teams in any sport.^[7] The city honored this dynasty by erecting two signs noting the achievement.

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• Jade Cargill, professional wrestler
• Alex Cobb, MLB player
• Dale Dawkins, NFL player
• Scotty Emerick, country music singer
• Barry Fanaro, Emmy Award-winning writer
• Mardy Fish, Olympic silver medal-winning tennis player
• Kenny Holmes, NFL player
• Muni Long, Grammy-winning R&B artist^[8]
• YNW Melly, rapper
• Riley Minix, basketball player^[9]
• Alison Mosshart, singer and songwriter, bands The Kills and Dead Weather
• Zeke Motta, NFL player
• Jake Owen, country music singer
• Gary Parris, NFL player
• Albert Reed, model and Dancing With the Stars contestant
• Stephen Root, actor
• Eric Smith, NFL player
• Daleroy Stewart, NFL player
• James Stewart, NFL player
• Bryan Stork, NFL player
• Terry Taylor, professional wrestler
• John Terry, actor

• Official website

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