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The Jupiter Tequesta Juno Beach area and Palm Beach County offer high quality educational opportunities from preschool through post graduate degrees. The area is served by the 15th largest public school district in the United States as well as many fine private and parochial schools. There are eight colleges, universities and vocational colleges within a 50 mile radius of the area. There are also 13 district wide magnet school programs at the high school level and an elementary math and science magnet program at Poinciana Elementary School. At the college level, the Jupiter Tequesta Juno Beach area is close to several fine academic and vocational institutions including Florida's fastest growing state university, Florida Atlantic University (FAU). FAU is currently planning to begin development of a campus located in Jupiter just north of Donald Ross Road on the site of the Abacoa Development. Construction has begun in and campus enrollment is projected to he 1300 students by 1999. New pupil registration dates are scheduled and announced in early August. However, students may be enrolled at any time and parents are urged to do so as soon as possible after arrival in the area. To enroll in Florida schools, a child must be 5 years old by September 1 to enter Kindergarten and 6 years old by September 1 to enter first grade. For students enrolling in Florida schools for the first time, requirements include:
Palm Beach County School Board
School Board Office, 434-8139
North County Superintendent.
Association of Independent Schools
of Florida — SCHOOLS — — Public Schools Jupiter Elementary School Jupiter Farms Community Elementary
Jerry Thomas Elementary School
Limestone Creek Elementary Lighthouse Elementary School
Jupiter Middle School Watson B. Duncan Middle School
Jupiter High School W.T. Dwyer High School Jupiter Christian School Good Shepherd Episcopal School Palm Beach
Community College The Palm Beach Community College Eissey Campus, located in Palm Beach Gardens (15 minutes from Jupiter), serves as a resource for higher education for residents of the surrounding community. Associate of Arts degree courses are readily available for students planning to transfer to universities. Associate of Science degree programs unique to the Eissey Campus include respiratory care, water/wastewater technology, ornamental horticulture and the radiography programs. The Eissey Campus is also home of the legal assistant Associate of Science degree program and Palm Beach County's only ROPES training facility. ROPES is action-based training using low and high ropes in a structured experience for team building using concepts of continuous quality improvement. In 1995, the Eissey Campus added the Center for Business and Industry facility; a state-of- the-art conferencing center in the Alfred W. Meldon Lecture Hall; English and foreign language, vocational preparatory, reading and writing computer laboratories; specially equipped art classrooms; and the public art gallery. Additionally, the magnificent 750-seat Eissey Campus Theater presents educational and cultural programs for the benefit of the college and the public and serves as an education center for the campus theater program. As a comprehensive community college, PBCC offers a variety of academic and non-credit programs serving students of all ages and in all stages of career development. Other campus locations are Lake Worth, Boca Raton and Belle Glade. Northwood
University - Florida Campus First established as a conference center, Northwood University's Florida Campus has grown and flourished. As one of the nation's most modern and distinctive campuses today, Northwood University provides a nice blend of architecture and nature. Just 10 minutes from Palm Beach and the Atlantic Ocean, the nearly 100-acre campus features modern residential facilities and an intercollegiate sports complex. Northwood University offers a Bachelor of Business Administration in the areas of accounting, computer information management, computer science management, automotive marketing, economics and marketing management. The university also grants associate and master's degrees in business administration. Northwood's West Palm Beach campus also offers a program for working adults to obtain a college degree while maintaining their employment. Florida Atlantic
University The fastest growing member of Floridas State University System, FAU services seven counties, with seven of its nine colleges based on the 850-acre Boca Raton campus. New facilities include the Social Science, Science and Engineering, and Education buildings, and a major expansion of the Schmidt College of Arts and Humanities. For commuter students living in the northern portion of the University's service area, FAU also provides a selection of undergraduate and graduate courses at the NorthCorp center in Palm Beach Gardens, located just east of I-95 at the PGA Blvd. exit. This campus has 42,000 square feet of space consisting of 15 classrooms, five seminar rooms, a new and up-to-date computer laboratory, a student lounge, an art/science classroom and a 7,500 sq. foot library with interconnections to the main FAU library and other State University System libraries. Palm Beach
Atlantic College Founded in 1968 by concerned Palm Beach County residents who felt the need for an unusual institution of higher learning, one that would stress not only academic quality but also character development and spiritual maturity. Chartered as a Christian liberal arts college, the college offers a high quality education for students of all denominations. Palm Beach Atlantic College offers a variety of traditional and non-traditional programs including Bachelors and business areas, and Masters degree programs in Business |
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