Boundary dispute: Overcrowding at Cypress Bay High School

Cypress Bay High School it was built for 3,400 students but today serves more then 5,300 students on the sprawling Weston campus. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 10/15/07) 

Cypress Bay High School it was built for 3,400 students but today serves more then 5,300 students on the sprawling Weston campus. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 10/15/07)

Student on their lunch break have to eat in the school's large courtyard because the cafeteria is often too crowded. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 10/15/07)

Because there are more than 5,000 students at the high school, the cafeteria can't seat all the students. The overflow of students eat outside and some even use the school's library. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 2/19/08)

Western High School students Carly Blythe, Dominique Martinez and Kirsten Crocker are seen at lunch. New boundaries and a new high school will take students from Western High in Davie and Cypress Bay High in Weston to a new school. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 2/8/08)

Cypress Bay High School students have lunch in Weston, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. The high school cafeteria serves the equivalent of an Army brigade every afternoon and it's population tops 5,500 students. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz 9/26/07)

Students gather at lunch time at Cypress Bay High School. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 2/19/08)

Because there are more than 5,000 students at Cypress Bay High School, the cafeteria can't seat all the students so the overflow of students eat outside. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 2/19/08)

This is West Broward High School, the new school that is under construction on Pines Blvd, at U.S. 27 that will be home to all of Southwest Ranches and pockets of Davie and Pembroke Pines students. (Sun-Sentinel/Lou Toman 2/19/08)

 

Jessica Sirianni and her father Rob, of the Ivanhoe Development in Davie listen as parents make their cases for why their children should not be relocated, at the School Board of Broward County meeting on school attendance and boundaries and school usage recommendation at Plantation High School. The Broward School Board is redrawing boundaries to relieve Cypress Bay High School in Weston; fill West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines; and do away with Plantation�s overlapping attendance zone. (Sun-Sentinel/Ginny Dixon 3/13/08)

Debbie and David Williams of Weston cheer on one of the speakers at the School Board of Broward County meeting on school attendance and boundaries and school usage recommendation at Plantation High School. Their children are in the H-3 zone and will be relocated. The Broward School Board is redrawing boundaries to relieve Cypress Bay High School in Weston; fill West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines; and do away with Plantation�s overlapping attendance zone. (Sun-Sentinel/Ginny Dixon 3/13/08)

 

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