PLANTATION KEY SCHOOL - Tavernier, FL 

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Just across the busy Overseas Highway from Coral Shores High School (MM 90), nestled in a quiet residential neighborhood on Florida Bay, Plantation Key School services the needs of approximately 640 K - 8 students that live in the areas of Tavernier down through Long Key (MM 68 - 93). Originally constructed in 1976, Plantation Key School has been fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since it first accepted students.

The school slogan is "WHERE THE FUTURE IS IN PROGRESS", and the staff endeavors to fulfill the Mission Statement "... TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL STUDENTS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES TO LIVE A FULL AND MEANINGFUL LIFE IN A CHANGING WORLD." To this end, Plantation Key School achieved Merit School status from 1985 through 1992 when the program was discontinued, and has an active program involving adult volunteers that log about 14,000 hours of service for the school annually. SAT and FCAT scores range above average across all grade levels. Indeed, Plantation Key School has been rated "A" for four of the last five years.

In addition to the normal class time activities during the teaching day, Plantation Key School offers after school daycare, as well as school affiliated programs like Odyssey of the Mind, National Junior Honor Society, an extensive array of intramural sports, and various other organizations and associations. Students in the seventh and eighth grades may take advanced math, and eighth grade students may elect to take algebra for credit at the high school level. Plantation Key School also actively works with Coral Shores High School to smooth the transition of students from middle school status to high school status and to encourage a consistent nurturing of our youth throughout the primary and secondary school experience.

Technologically, Plantation Key School underwent a retrofit process in the mid 1990s to upgrade our communication capability to state-of-the-art, and to reorganize our local area networks and distribute them to all classrooms along with video capability. We currently have over 300 computers for use by students and staff. Since our original retrofit, we have upgraded three generations of desktop computers and servers and will be implementing a project giving all teachers wireless tablet computers in the near future. Our local area network is a part of the greater Monroe County School District's fiber optic wide area network running on gigabit fiber capability.