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2010-11 Northeast Florida Education Guide Northeast Florida 2010-11 Publisher Mike Clements Providing a quality education for our children is one of the greatest gifts we can give as parents. A solid well-rounded education plays a key role in future economic vitality and prosperity and also gives our children a much-needed sense of community. It is our mission to provide families with quality information about educational choices in our region. If this is your first time using our guide, we hope that it helps you in your quest to find the right school for your children. With that said, we are proud once again to present The Northeast Florida Education Guide , in this, our thirteenth year of publishing. Take a look inside and you will see the impact of how Florida’s education reforms are taking shape and are continuing to change the lives of our children who attend public schools. Look further and you will get a comprehensive look at the diverse educational opportunities being offered by the private schools in our region as well. Also, check out our new pre-school directory. The Guide continues to provide our readers with the most comprehensive view of the education landscape of Northeast Florida. I would like to especially thank the Florida Doctors Insurance Company for being the 2011-12 Front Cover Art Contest Sponsor. Our theme this year is “What does being safe mean to you.” This will be our third year of providing college scholarship funds to three winners from the elementary, middle and high school grades. Thanks also to The Jacksonville Bank for being our bank partner for the 2011-12 Front Cover Art Contest. All public and private school students in Duval, St Johns, Clay, Nassau, Putnam, Flagler or Baker County are eligible to participate. The contest will run from October 15, 2010 to May 31, 2011. Congratulations to Rory Petersen, this year’s winner of the 2010-11 Front Cover Art Contest, as well as all the other finalists and participating students. His winning artwork is featured on the front cover. (Please, see our story on pages 9-13.) Use the Guide and our website throughout the coming school year as a resource to find various phone numbers and facts about our school systems. Depending on where you live on the First Coast, you may use the Guide to help you decide everything from which career academy to which private school to which college or university your child will attend. Our Education Guide team views our work as a labor of love, but we could not do it without the assistance of our public school superintendents, private school administrators and their staff mem-bers who help make our guide come to life. We also sincerely thank all our advertisers who make it all possible. Be sure to check out our website as it has our complete information on-line, with links to our advertisers’ websites plus information on all our guides in Central Florida, Greater Tampa/ St. Petersburg, Palm Beach, South Florida, South Hampton Roads, Virginia and Los Angeles, California. Our site is searchable for all important information on public and private schools for each county and by each grade level. We’d also like to hear from you. In the coming year if you think of any creative suggestions how we could improve the Guide, please let us know. This is our community too and the education of our children impacts us all. Clements Publishing Company Michael A. Clements Publisher / Owner Advertising Sales Jane Bachtell (904) 215-9467 Creative Direction Whispering Dog Design whisperingdog.com (352) 475-5874 (888) 240-2962 Northeast Florida Education Guide ©2010 • Made in the U.S.A. Northeast Florida Education Guide is published yearly by: Clements Publishing Co. P.O. Box 51000 Jacksonville Beach, FL 32240 Telephone: (904) 249-1719 Facsimile: (904) 332-6535 E-mail: mc@educationguide.net www.americaseducationguide.com Reproduction in whole or part without written permission of the publisher is prohibited. This guide contains information compiled from sources which Clements Publishing Company does not control. Clements Publishing Company does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the information provided and shall not be liable for any losses or injuries or other damages resulting from or attributable to Clements Publishing Company’s negligence or otherwise. 6 www.americaseducationguide.com

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Providing a quality education for our children is one of the greatest gifts we can give as parents. A solid well-rounded education plays a key role in future economic vitality and prosperity and also gives our children a much-needed sense of community. It is our mission to provide families with quality information about educational choices in our region. If this is your first time using our guide, we hope that it helps you in your quest to find the right school for your children. With that said, we are proud once again to present The Northeast Florida Education Guide, in this, our thirteenth year of publishing. Take a look inside and you will see the impact of how Florida’s education reforms are taking shape and are continuing to change the lives of our children who attend public schools. Look further and you will get a comprehensive look at the diverse educational opportunities being offered by the private schools in our region as well. Also, check out our new pre-school directory. The Guide continues to provide our readers with the most comprehensive view of the education landscape of Northeast Florida. I would like to especially thank the Florida Doctors Insurance Company for being the 2011-12 Front Cover Art Contest Sponsor. Our theme this year is “What does being safe mean to you.” This will be our third year of providing college scholarship funds to three winners from the elementary, middle and high school grades. Thanks also to The Jacksonville Bank for being our bank partner for the 2011-12 Front Cover Art Contest. All public and private school students in Duval, St Johns, Clay, Nassau, Putnam, Flagler or Baker County are eligible to participate. The contest will run from October 15, 2010 to May 31, 2011. Congratulations to Rory Petersen, this year’s winner of the 2010-11 Front Cover Art Contest, as well as all the other finalists and participating students. His winning artwork is featured on the front cover. (Please, see our story on pages 9-13.) Use the Guide and our website throughout the coming school year as a resource to find various phone numbers and facts about our school systems. Depending on where you live on the First Coast, you may use the Guide to help you decide everything from which career academy to which private school to which college or university your child will attend. Our Education Guide team views our work as a labor of love, but we could not do it without the assistance of our public school superintendents, private school administrators and their staff members who help make our guide come to life. We also sincerely thank all our advertisers who make it all possible. Be sure to check out our website as it has our complete information on-line, with links to our advertisers’ websites plus information on all our guides in Central Florida, Greater Tampa/ St. Petersburg, Palm Beach, South Florida, South Hampton Roads, Virginia and Los Angeles, California. Our site is searchable for all important information on public and private schools for each county and by each grade level. We’d also like to hear from you. In the coming year if you think of any creative suggestions how we could improve the Guide, please let us know. This is our community too and the education of our children impacts us all.

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