St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

The St. Thomas Aquinas High School is a facility located in the southwest of the city of Fort Lauderdale in Florida secondary school in private of the Archdiocese of Miami. It was created in 1952 as a spin- off of a school founded in 1936 and was named in 1961 after the Catholic Saint Thomas Aquinas. In 1996 she was awarded the Blue Ribbon Award, the highest award of the Ministry of Education of the United States for excellence in education.

The St. Thomas Aquinas High School is attended by approximately 2,200 students, who are taught by about 120 teachers. The admission requirements include the existence of an entrance test, as well as two letters of recommendation of previous school attended. Nationally known it is in the U.S. mainly due to the success of their students due to the space occupied on a statewide ranking of the magazine Sports Illustrated for sports, their sports department, among others, in 2005 the third place. The American football team the school won the previous two national champion six times and the championship of the State of Florida.

Among the graduates of St. Thomas Aquinas High School include the tennis player Chris Evert and Mark Merklein, the American football player Michael Irvin and Brian Piccolo, American football player Alejandro Bedoya and Eric Eichmann, the volleyball national team Foluke Akinradewo, the Olympic champion and multiple world champion in the 400 -meter run Sanya Richards - Ross, the athlete Arman Hall, the golfer Jason Dufner, the writer Michael Connelly, the actor Billy Crudup and Chris Conrad, screenwriter, film producer and director Steve Conrad and the politician and former Maryland Governor Parris Glendening.