Port Charlotte High School

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Port Charlotte High School
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Location
Port Charlotte High School
18200 Cochran Boulevard

Port Charlotte
,
Florida
33948

United States
Coordinates 27°00′12″N82°09′03″W / 27.00340°N 82.15093°W / 27.00340; -82.15093
Information
Type Public
Established1981;44 years ago (1981) [1]
NCES School ID 120024002122 [2]
PrincipalJames Vernon [3]
Staff80.00 (FTE) [2]
Grades9–12 [4]
Number of students1,659 (2023–2024) [2]
Student to teacher ratio20.54 [2]
Campus Suburban [2]
ColorsRed and Black    [4]
Athletics Florida High School Athletic Association
Mascot Pirate [4] Current Port Charlotte High School logo.png
Website www.yourcharlotteschools.net/pchs

Port Charlotte High School (PCHS) is a public comprehensive U.S. high school located in Port Charlotte, Florida and is located adjacent to Charlotte Technical College. The school opened in 1981, graduated its first class in 1984, its mascot is the pirate, and the school motto is "Yes, I am a Pirate." [4] It is operated by Charlotte County Public Schools. [5]

Contents

At one point in time, Port Charlotte High School was the largest high school in Charlotte County, with 2,082 students enrolled in grades Grades 9 through 12. [6] Charlotte County Public Schools has "controlled open enrollment" in which students are generally assigned to a specific school by default based on geographic location, but families choose to enroll students at a different school if the selected school is not at capacity. [7] [8]

The school has grown much, and it survived Hurricane Charley in 2004 and Hurricane Ian in 2022. The school's main feeders are Murdock Middle School and Port Charlotte Middle School. [9] The school's top athletic rival is Charlotte High School. [10] PCHS has educated three National Football League players and two Major League Baseball player, one of whom also played in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

History

Prior to the construction of Port Charlotte High School and Lemon Bay High School, all senior high school students (grades 9-12) in Charlotte County were bussed to Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda. [11] With Charlotte County's increasing population, planning and budgeting for a new high school in Port Charlotte began in the 1970s. [12] In 1978, the school board authorized payment of $174,500 to General Development Corporation for land to construct the proposed new high school, [13] and the school board began soliciting bids from construction contractors in 1980. [14] Construction started on Port Charlotte High School in 1981, and opened its doors the next year for 9th and 10th graders.

At inception, the school had 26 teachers and 627 students, of whom only 2% were non-white. [15] For each of the next two years, a class was added, and PCHS graduated its first class in 1984. By 1996, PCHS had 1,342 students, 78.3% of whom were white, 14.1% of whom were black, 6.5% of whom were Hispanic, and 1.1% of whom were Asian, with no students identifying as Native American. [16] By 2002, the student population had reached 1,994. [17]

A Technology Training Center was established at the school in 1993 to assist teachers in integrating computers into their daily activities, and the school was retrofitted for computer technology in 1995-1996, ahead of 1996 district-wide communication link. [18] The original "G" and "B" buildings were completed in 1983. [19] The auditorium was built in 1984. [19] The science building, also known as A building, was built in 1987. [19] The BB building was built in 1990. [19] A swimming pool was added in 1991. [19] The "C building", which houses the library and some classrooms, was built in 2001. [19] In 2003, the new "B building", the two story academic classroom building, was finished. [19] In 2007, the new gym was finished. [4] The new gym did not replace the older one, but rather, was an addition. [4]

Hurricane Charley

On August 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley brought devastation to the Port Charlotte region. [20] Although Port Charlotte High School suffered only minor damage from the hurricane, other regional high schools suffered significant damage. [21] In the aftermath, Port Charlotte High School shared its facility with the students of Charlotte High School, with Port Charlotte High School students attending morning class and Charlotte High School students attending in the evening. [22] Later in September, Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne prompted Charlotte County Schools to be closed once again. In total, the three hurricanes caused students to miss 13 days of school during the 2004–2005 school year, requiring make-up days that infringed on student and staff days-off. [23] [24]

Westboro Baptist Church protest

Port Charlotte High School has a Gay-Straight Alliance club, [25] and the first meeting of the group on campus was organized by then-student Asher Levine. The club had previously faced backlash on campus by the student-led organization, Teens Against Gays, and members of the group wore shirts with their club name on it on campus to show opposition to the club. [26] On December 19, 2005, the club attracted protestors from the recognized hate group Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. Levine asked students to wear all-white to symbolize peace, and he passed out fliers about hateful language and bullying statistics in schools in spite of the administration prohibiting counter-protests. [27]

The Westboro Baptist Church protestors were prohibited from coming onto school grounds, but were allowed to picket across the street from the school and additional officers were brought to campus in anticipation of the protest. [28] The protestors stomped on an American flag and held signs saying that God hates gay people and American soldiers for defending a gay-friendly country. Counter-protesters met the protestors outside the school and outnumbered the protestors around fifty to twenty-five, however it was an extremely small representation of the student body of more than 2,000, and some other students were laughing at the situation and attempting to record it. Levine expressed disappointment with the incident afterward, saying that "among the student body, it was just more of a freak show" and "it wasn't the alliance I was looking forward to." [27] The Gay-Straight Alliance ceased to exist at PCHS for several years, but was later revived.

Hurricane Ian

On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian brought considerable wind as well as flooding and storm surge damage to the Port Charlotte region. All schools and ancillary facilities in the Charlotte County Public Schools system received considerable injury from Ian. However, Port Charlotte High School was one of the 19 schools in Charlotte County able to re-open 3 weeks after the schools had been forced to close due to the storm. [29] [30] [31] The school was closed for another day due to Hurricane Nicole in early November, which passed northeast of the school and brought tropical storm conditions to the area. [32] In total, 16 school days were missed because of the systems during the 2022–2023 school year. Ian knocked over the floodlights around the football field, ripped open the roof of the football team's weight room, damaged the scoreboard, and destroyed sporting equipment. Because of the damage, the football team had to play the last six of their games away from home and players were forced to weight lift on the school tennis court under a tent. Despite that the Pirates secured their first district title since 2013 following a win against Braden River. [33] [34] [35]

A combination of private donations from individuals and businesses and funds from Charlotte County allowed the school to build a "state-of-the-art" weight room, a new scoreboard, and new LED lights which allow the school to do a light show during the halftime of football games. [35] The school also repainted the exterior, power-washed sidewalks, deep-cleaned bathrooms, replaced carpets, and removed the old JROTC obstacle course and added new sod there and to the football field. New restrooms were added between the fields and several roofs were replaced. [36]

Governance

Port Charlotte High School is a public school supported by public funds, as defined by Florida Statute 1003.01. [37] It is owned and operated by the Charlotte County School Board, a non-partisan five member panel of officials elected by the citizens of Charlotte County responsible for controlling and organizing public schools within the county. [38] The school is operated through funding appropriated by the District School Board of Charlotte County, which is in turn funded through local taxation and appropriations from the state and federal government. The local school board operates the school within the requirements and guidelines set forth by the Florida Constitution and Florida State Statutes, with some programs such as Champ's Cafe (under the National School Lunch Program) and NJROTC falling under United States federal jurisdiction. [39]

School structure

PCHS Pirate Pride poster seen on the walls throughout the PCHS campus as well as on the back of the PCHS Student Planner. Pirate P-R-I-D-E is "Preparation, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence." PCHS Pirate Pride.JPG
PCHS Pirate Pride poster seen on the walls throughout the PCHS campus as well as on the back of the PCHS Student Planner. Pirate P-R-I-D-E is "Preparation, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence."

Students are grouped by grade level: freshmen (ninth grade), sophomores (tenth grade), juniors (eleventh grade) and seniors (twelfth grade). [40] As of 2009, students had a seven period academic day, [41] five days per week, 180 days per year. The school year starts in August and concludes in May or June every year, based on the district-wide school calendar developed by the Charlotte County School Board, and is divided into two semesters. [42] Grades are reported for credit every nine weeks, and semesters are 16 weeks long. As of the 2023-2024 school year, PCHS had an average class size of 20. [43] The maximum class size for core curriculum class at a high school in Florida is 25 per Florida Statute 1003.03 1(c). [44]

As of 2025, Port Charlotte High School's leadership consisted of one principal and three assistant principals. [45]

The school previously published The Pirate Page in local newspapers published by Sun Coast Media Group, a student-produced work covering news related to the school. [46]

Demographics

As of the 2023–24 school year, Port Charlotte High School hosted 1,659 students. Of the student body, 911 of the students were male and 748 were female. 410 were in ninth grade, 478 were in tenth grade, 420 were in eleventh grade, and 351 were in twelfth grade. 888 students were white, 406 were Hispanic, 197 were black, 120 were "two or more races," 35 were Asian, 12 were Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 1 was American Indian or Alaska Native. [2]

Admissions

Port Charlotte High School is part of Charlotte County's system of open enrollment, which was already in place when the school was founded, [47] under which students are assigned a to a traditional public school based on location, but may apply to attend a different one. Parents may request to change their already enrolled student's school during the month of February. [7] [8] With the exception of some students with an Individualized Educational Plan, students relying on transportation by school bus may only attend Port Charlotte High School if they reside within its geographic boundaries. [48] Geographic boundaries are posted on the school district's website. [49]

Curriculum

Port Charlotte High School's 2020-2021 school year graduation at Charlotte Sports Park PCHS Graduation Charlotte Sports Park May 2021.jpg
Port Charlotte High School's 2020–2021 school year graduation at Charlotte Sports Park

As a public school, Port Charlotte High School uses curriculum prescribed by the Florida Department of Education and the Charlotte County School Board, which is regulated under part IV of Florida Statute 1003. Specifically, curriculum follows the high school student progression plan set forth by the school board. [51] Dual-enrollment is offered in partnership with Florida Southwestern State College and Charlotte Technical College, with the latter providing training in automotive mechanics, culinary arts, construction, and early childhood education, among other fields. [52] Port Charlotte High School participates in the Cambridge AICE program and the College Board's Advanced Placement program, [53] and the school maintains a department dedicated to the special needs of exceptional students. [54] Curriculum has historically followed an emphasis of "Focus on Their Future". [52]

Port Charlotte High School participates in Florida's standardized testing and is rated by the state annually.

Port Charlotte High School Accountability Report [55]
School YearSchool GradeSchool YearSchool Grade
1999–2000C2012–2013A
2000–2001C2013–2014B
2001–2002A2014–2015B
2002–2003C2015–2016C
2003–2004C2016–2017C
2004–2005C2017–2018B
2005–2006B2018–2019C
2006–2007C2019–2020 [a] —
2007–2008A2020–2021C
2008–2009A2021–2022C
2009–2010B2022–2023B
2010–2011C2023–2024C
2011–2012A2024–2025C
  1. ↑ Not calculated due to the COVID-19 pandemic interrupting the school year. [56]

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

PCHS cheerleaders at a football game Port Charlotte Pirate Cheerleaders Stunting 1.jpg
PCHS cheerleaders at a football game

The PCHS athletic department operates programs in football, basketball, baseball, softball, track, cheerleading, golf, wrestling, soccer, volleyball, bowling, swimming, lacrosse, diving, cross country running, and weightlifting, and tennis. [57] Athletics at PCHS are regulated by the Florida High School Athletic Association under classification 5A, district 11 (as of 2025). [58]

The Charlotte Tarpons have long been known Pirates' cross-river rival, with the annual varsity football game between the two teams being known as the Battle of the Peace River, [59] or the Peace River Classic, [60] named after the Peace River which separates Port Charlotte High School from Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda. The rivalry started in 1982 when the Tarpons defeated the Pirates 42-0 in the teams' first meeting. From the school's founding in the 1980s to the 2010s, the Tarpons proved to be a formidable opponent in football, with the Englewood Sun noting in 2003 that the rivalry had "been one-sided for longer than many of Friday's participants have been alive" [61] As of 2021, the Tarpons had a 36-5 advantage over the Pirates over the entire course of Port Charlotte High's existence. [59] However, a 2024 article in the Charlotte Sun notes a sharp reversal in trend, in which Port Charlotte is said to have "bigger fish to fry" than the Tarpons after the "Pirates plunder Tarpons". [62] In 2025, MaxPreps noted that "Port Charlotte skates past Charlotte with ease," covering the team's 35-7 victory, [63] with another article noting it is the Pirates' fourth win in a row against their cross-river rival. [64]

Clubs and organizations

Port Charlotte High School hosts numerous student and staff sponsored clubs and organizations. As of 2025, there were 25 officially recognized clubs at the school. [65] Some of the school's clubs and organizations have received awards and recognition in their own right.

Model United Nations

The school's Model United Nations (MUN) is "the most successful competitive team of any kind in Charlotte County history". [66] The team has been recognized as one of the best Model UN teams in the country for its winning performances at conferences at both the national and international levels. [67]

Team members put on a yearly Mini-Mun conference for students from local public and private middle schools. They also present six-week-long public speaking/debate seminars at several local elementary schools. The seminars culminate in a public debate between teams from the elementary schools. [66] [68]

NJROTC Color Guard just before the performance of the national anthem at a football game, flanked by cheerleaders. Port Charlotte High NJROTC and cheerleaders 3.jpg
NJROTC Color Guard just before the performance of the national anthem at a football game, flanked by cheerleaders.

The Naval Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC) is a program allowing high school students to participate in the academic and physical training aspect of naval service, while also providing leadership opportunities to those involved in the program. [69] It does not require a commitment to military service following high school graduation. [70] Port Charlotte's NJROTC program was established in the early 1990s; since then, it has grown significantly. The company of cadets are overseen and instructed by two retired United States Navy personnel, [71] who are in turn overseen by the United States Navy itself through the form of Area Managers. [72] Port Charlotte's unit is a member of NJROTC Area Seven, and is known for service to its community. [73]

The Pirate NJROTC unit has received many awards over the years, including, but not limited to the Distinguished Unit Award, which it has been awarded over seven consecutive academic years - 2001–2007. [74] The unit is a part of Area 7, which consists of units in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. [75]

The unit has seven "teams" within its infrastructure that allow participating cadets to receive extracurricular training and experience of their choice: an armed and unarmed drill team, color guard, honor guard, academic team, orienteering team, marksmanship team and a physical training ("PT") team. [76] The teams compete against other Area Seven units at colleges, universities, military installations, and other high schools. The teams also compete with other units across the United States. [77]

Pride of Port Charlotte Bands

The Pride of Port Charlotte Marching Band performing in a Christmas parade in Downtown Punta Gorda PCHS PRIDE of Port Charlotte Marching Band 02.jpg
The Pride of Port Charlotte Marching Band performing in a Christmas parade in Downtown Punta Gorda

Port Charlotte High School's "Pride of Port Charlotte" Bands have had a history of being ranked among the top bands in the state of Florida. In 2000, the competitive marching band won first place at the Southern Showcase of Champions Marching Festival in Gainesville, Florida [78] The Pride of Port Charlotte Marching Band has participated at many famous events, such as the Fiesta Bowl, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York City, the New Year's Day parade in London, England, and the Cotton Bowl Parade in Dallas, Texas among many others. [79] [80] The pride concert and jazz bands are also extremely successful, consistently receiving superior ratings from the Florida Bandmasters Association. [81]

Awards and recognition

In 2009, Port Charlotte High School was recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's best high schools and a "Bronze Medal School" [82] for academic excellence. PCHS was one of 1,189 schools nationwide to receive a bronze medal. [83]

Teacher and staff awards

Algebra teacher Nancy Kenneally, who taught at Port Charlotte High since its opening in 1981, received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring for the state of Florida in 1998, 1999, and 2000, and received the award nationally in 2001. [1] Michelle Kasanofsky was awarded a Shine Award by Governor Rick Scott and was named Charlotte County teacher of the year in 2013. [84] [85]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

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