Awards and Recognition
During the 1988-89 school year, Cape Coral High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
In 1996, Cape Coral High School's newspaper The Shell won the NSPA's high school newspaper competition in Orlando, FL. It went on to rank 8th nationally. In 1997, The Shell repeated its win for the state of Florida. The paper, now known as The Seahawk's Eye, continues to do well in many competitions, including a First Place award from the American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) during the 2008-2009 school year. It has also won first place from the National Scholastic Press Association during both the 2009 and 2010 school years.
In the spring of 2006, the school was one of 17 in Florida selected as part of Sports Illustrated’s "model SI Schools steroid and drug prevention initiative" for high school athletes.
In April 2007 the school was awarded accreditation by the International Baccalaureate Organization to offer the IB Diploma Programme, making it the second IB school in Lee County and putting the school on track to graduate its first IB class in 2009.
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