Located in the heart of St. Tammany Parish, Fontainebleau High School was opened on August 1994 with 775 ninth and tenth grade students. Fontainebleau High presently has a student population of 1950.
"Optimus Optimorum"
Fontainebleau High School students competed in a National PTA Relections contest recently. Winners of the contest are, front row, from left, Sarah Barbier, Ashley Jacobsen, Christina Dorcey and Angela Griffitt; and back row, Emily England, Meaghan Boucher, Genevieve Brown, Cody Sasser and Raquel Rodriguez.
By Megan
FerrandoFontainebleau High School correspondentThe Fontainebleau High community rose to new heights in last Friday’s home football game against Northshore. The players not only fought strong on the field, but fought breast cancer by wearing pink shoelaces. In addition, the FHS Quarterback Club, in conjunction with the Zeta Tau Alpha Northshore Alumnae Chapter, handed out pink ribbons and breast cancer awareness information.
In support of the Bulldogs and breast cancer awareness, assistants
and cancer survivor Claire Carley work at the FHS "Think Pink" game
on Oct. 7. Pictured, from left, are Brooke Costanza, Abbegayle Phares,
Jasmine White, Carley, Emily Ingrassia, Ryan Grace and Marcus Kety.
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Fontainebleau High School was named as one of the top-performing schools in the country in the January 15th, 2009 issue of Business Week. Great Schools—an independent, nonprofit organization that inspires parents to be involved in their children’s education—and Business Week partnered to identify five top-performing high schools in each state.
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Derek Weidlein
National Merit Finalist
Derek Weidlein, the son of Dan and Sandy Weidlein and a senior at Fontainebleau High School, was named a Finalist in the National Merit 2011 Scholarship Competition. About 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools entered the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. To become a Finalist, a Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn a high qualifying score on the SAT. Derek is one of 15,000 Semifinalist nationwide to be chosen as a National Merit Finalists. He is captain of the FHS Swim Team, member of the Quiz Bowl team, and a member of the FHS Chapter of the National Honor Society. Derek accepted early admission to Texas A&M University where he plans to study chemical engineering.
Justin Magrath
Prudential Spirit of Community Award Finalist
Justin Magrath a sophomore at Fontainebleau High School was named a Finalist in the Prudential Spirit of Community Award. Justin, who has been volunteering since he was a small child, created a series of environmental projects dubbed “Green Mandeville” in 2008. Since then, he has completed five projects including constructing birdhouses, collecting pull-tabs, picking up trash around a local pond, and planting thousands of trees.
Thomas Beckstrom
ACHIEVES TOP ACT SCORE
Thomas Beckstrom, the son of Mark and Joan Beckstrom and a junior at Fontainebleau High School, earned a top composite score of 36 on a recent ACT test. He is a member of the FHS Swim and Quiz Bowl teams, and the Pelican Athletic Club Swim Team. Thomas also enjoys composing and performing music and playing ultimate Frisbee. His academic interests include pre-medicine and biomedical sciences, which he plans to study upon his graduation in 2012.
| CONGRATULATIONS!!! The following students have successfully passed their Microsoft Office Specialist Exam: | ||
MS Office Word 2007 |
MS Office PowerPoint 2007 |
MS Office Excel 2007 |
Lauren Akkawi |
Jasmine Beard Zachary Bohn Ryan Brooks Jonathan Gruenig Brittany Hampton Marc Kliebert Nathan Rasmussen Alexandra Restrepo Michael Rhodes Amanda Simone Steven Suter Erin Vasut |
Demario Bryce Clark Jacob Clarke Andrew Killgore Micah Magee Ethan Mayfield Brandon Morse Brandon Ramos Michael Rhodes Ron Robinson Andrea Theus |
NATIONAL FFA CONVENTION WINNERS:
Bronze Medal Winners - Fallan Lowder & Summer May in Agricultural Engineering, and Amber Allen in Botany.
Silver Medal Winner - Zane Toney- in Zoology.
The Secrets of the Ya Ya Seniorhood club, with participation by the FHS student body, raised $1300.00 for Breast Cancer research in October. The money was donated to The Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in Covington.
