On Tuesday, September 7th at 6:30 pm at Cape Coral HS there will be a faculty basketball game between FMHS and CCHS. Buy your tickets during lunch starting this Friday. The proceeds will benefit FMHS.

Monday, September 13th between 6:30 - 8:00 pm

IB Seminars for SL Biology, SL Economics, SL Math Studies and SL Psychology are being made available to enhance the one-year SL courses. Please see the IB page to view the dates and times.

Newsweek Magazine has ranked Fort Myers High School as the 71st best high school in America. Go to Newsweek to view the rankings.

Reach the FMHS Community and show your support for FMHS by advertising in the FMHS All Sports Program. Ads start at $75.00. Please click here to view the order form.

You can purchase a Legacy Brick with your name and year on it to be placed by the cafeteria walkway for $30.00. This purchase will help support the FMHS Athletic Booster Club. See form to order.

Course registration forms for entering freshmen for the 2010-2011 school year are now available here.

Traditional freshman class registration.

Pre-IB freshman class registration.

Parent letter explaining registration and other important information.

This agency is in need of volunteers to perform the following tasks:
Updating agency website
Putting together quarterly newsletter
Updating and maintaining agency Twitter and Facebook pages
Updating donor database (currently an Excel spreadsheet)
Revising agency brochures
If you are interested, please see Ms. Sparks in the guidance office.

Congratulations to Morgan Kirk, who has just been awarded the prestigious Golden Apple Teachers Award. We thank her for all of her hard work she has dedicated to her students and to FMHS. Keep up the great work!

Our boys basketball team won the 2010 state championship. This is the first basketball championship won by anyone in Southwest Florida. Congratulations!

Beginning in Spring 2011, the FCAT Mathematics and Reading tests will be modified to have no short- or long-response questions, among other changes. If a student does not meet the FCAT score required for graduation, he or she may qualify for graduation with an equivalent SAT or ACT score. For more information, click here.

Fort Myers High School's NCLB School Public Accountability Report (SPAR), and Annual Yearly Progress Report (AYP Report) is available for review at the Fort Myers High School front office.

Click here to view the report - View Certificate

Athletic paperwork required to participate in high schools sports can now be located on the Athletic page. (You need to download, print out and turn in all pages)

The Coalition for a Drug-Free Southwest Florida is looking for volunteers, minimum age 14, to answer telephones after school, assist our office staff, and help with special programs.

Our office is located in Cape Coral, and we have special programs in various locations in Lee County.

This is perfect for students who need service hours, and an opportunity for you to help a non-profit that is really making a difference in our community.

For more information, please call Deb Comella at 239.541.9003 or e-mail prdirector@drugfreeswfl.org

The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools, Inc. is in the process of choosing 27 new 9th grade scholars to receive a 2+2 College tuition Scholarship.  These students, as well as about 30 new middle school students, will need a mentor to guide them through their challenging school years.  If you have just 30 minutes, 2-3 times a month, you could make a huge difference in one of these children’s lives.  The mentor meets the student on campus, during school hours.

If you are interested, please call or email Janelle Caple at The Foundation: 
337-0433 or janelleca@leeschools.net.

The 2010-2011 IB Application is now available: English - Spanish - Creole

The Parent Link logon format has been changed effective August 1, 2007. The new format is as follows:

User name is the StudentID of the eldest child in the School District and your first and last initial. Password is your eldest child's birth date in MMDDYY format. For example: Jane Doe's eldest child's StudentID is 12345678, her user name would be 12345678JD. Jane Doe's eldest child's birth date is January 1, 1965, her password would be 010165

Click here to go to Parentlink

For assistance please email Robin Miller at Robinmm@leeschools.net

FMHS alumni of 2008: Jarad Dugan, Natalie Greenhill and Luke Whicker created a paddle game that you can play against other Lee County High Schools. Best played with a monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater.
Click here to play!

Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Cort-Mora for earning her Doctor of Educational Leadership with a Concentration in Statistics from Argosy University

Congratulations to Emily Dahms, Jacob Lynch, and the Riptide Dance Team. Emily recieved a Superior rating for her performance of Estillian Caprice on Alto Saxophone, Jacob received the highest honor of Superior with Distinction for his performance of the Concerto in E-Flat on Trumpet, and the Riptide Dance Team earned Superior at the state level.

Micaela Neal, grade 10, has just won second place in the state of Florida in the National Junior Duck Stamp competition with her acrylic painting of a wood duck. She was judged against 10th, 11th and 12th graders throughout the state. Over 22,000 students enter the competition each year, which is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Congratulations to all of the winners from FMHS this year:

Grade 9:	Poetry:	1st	Chloe Allen
		2nd	Megan Lucker
		3rd	Emily Jones
	Fiction:	1st	Chloe Allen
		2nd	Leah Colucci
	Personal Memoir:	1st	Jacob Taminosian
		2nd	Chloe Allen
		3rd	Scott Younger
Grade 10:	Poetry	1st	Berta Gonzalez
		2nd	Hannah Lewis
		3rd	Kelsea Kosko
	Personal Memoir	2nd	Alex Schwartz
		3rd	Julia Leal
Overall winner grades 9/10: Chloe Allen
Grade 11:	Poetry:	1st	Matthew Kordonowy
		2nd	Meghan Hall
	Fiction:	1st	Morgan Beebe
		2nd	Constance Hackler
		3rd	Jessica Norris
	Personal Memoir:	1st	Sarah Basil
		2nd	Jaclyn Vena
		3rd	Jozsef Kali
Grade 12:	Poetry:	2nd	Jamie Gelb
	Fiction:	3rd	Carlos Marin
	Personal Memoir:	3rd	Pacharina Perez

Congratulations to FMHS English teacher Ms. Morgan Kirk for being a 2010 Golden Apple winner.

FMHS and ten other schools painted newspaper racks in local McDonalds, and FMHS won a $500 gift certificate from our sponsor, Anderson's True Value and Valspar for recieving the most votes. Our rack is located at McDonald's at 3645 Cleveland Ave., Fort Myers 33901

FMHS sent 63 members of Phi Delta Y to the YMCA Youth in Government State Assembly in Tallahassee, and they were very successful:

There are 13 State Officer positions and FMHS students were appointed or elected to 6 of them:
Alex Fahnlander – elected 2010 – 2011 Youth Governor (this is the first FMHS governor since 2005)
Alyssa Nieves – elected 2010-2011 Attorney General
Hilary Jessup – elected 2010-2011 Williams Senate President
Efe Cudjoe – appointed 2010-2011 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Ananya Mahajan – appointed 2010-2011 Senior Justice of the Supreme Court
Emma Joslyn – appointed 2010-2011 Editor in Chief
Additional awards:
Legislative
John Cowart – Outstanding Statesman, Williams Senate
Justin Summerville – Bill passed into law by the house, senate and executive cabinet
Samantha Prabakaran – Best Bill – Bowen
Judicial
Nancy Lu – Outstanding Attorney, District Court
Sarah Iacomini – Best Brief – District Court
Lauren Reuter – appointed Associate Justice Supreme Court
Lobby Firms
Tirzah Brown, Erin MacArthur, Mallory Schindler – Outstanding Lobby Firm