Weston High’s Lows

This morning, officials at the Broward County School Board met off-site to decide where to put a brand new high school that would relieve overcrowding at Weston’s only present high school, Cypress Bay.

Currently, Cypress Bay High School has 5300 students, housed at two separate locations, which serve the city. About 1400 ninth graders attend an annex located on New River Circle, in Sunrise.

According to Natalie McNeal staff reporter for the Miami Herald, (Side by Side School), the proposed areas up for discussion are not both in Weston proper. One is on Manatee Isles Drive near what will be Southwest 196th Avenue, or on New River Circle near I-75 in Sunrise.

Obstacles that stand in the way for these proposed sites are a missing access road in an area slated for a project by the South Florida Water Management District at Manatee Isles Drive, and the size and shape of the site on New River Circle.
Some folks believe the unique educational experience offered at “The Bay” might be compromised after relieving its overcrowding. After all, its one of the only high schools that has a PR and Media Relations department, and because offering students such distinctive and intriguing electives as law, television production, journalism, and business management requires MONEY, perhaps some programs may suffer if they have to share.

Things got hot at an emergency city commission meeting held by Weston officials yesterday, when Mayor Eric Hersh’s idea to build the NEW ONE RIGHT NEXT TO THE OLD ONE, with a parking garage to separate the two, got shot down.

I’m sure residents of Weston communities like Tequesta Lake Estates, Bernuda Springs, Isles at Weston and Tequesta Point, and the Sunrise communities of Westwind Cove, Riverend, and New River Estates would be happy to welcome a big shiny new high school in their nick of the woods.