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The vision/mission for the Marine Science Education Center  faculty, staff, and community is to provide the best possible total school program, academic as well as vocational, and meet the needs of each student.  For the elementary students that visit each day, we want to inspire them and show that learning can be fun.  With our vocational students we want to encourage them to start dreaming again and working toward their goals they had set before they became at risk students.   We want to show them we care by our actions, not by what we say


School hours are 8 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
 
We have no PTA contact. 
Our SAC contact is Tyler Greenwell  904-247-8888

Administrator Ronald Summers
Faculty
 B.J. Viers, Elementary Fifth Grade Program
Tim Carney, Vocational Instructor - Commercial Fishing
Nathan Shoemaker, Academic Instructor - Performance Based Diploma Program 

School Improvement Plan 2007/08

 

 

 

 

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HISTORY OF SCHOOL NUMBER 32

MARINE SCIENCE EDUCATION CENTER

The older upper portion of the School now known as the Marine Science Education Center Center was built in 1926-27 to replace an old wooden framed 3-room school house which was located where the newer portion of the Marine Science Education Center now stands. This new brick structure had three or four classrooms for grades 1 through 8. In 1949 to 1950 the lower extension to the building was built to add 4 more classrooms and a lunchroom. School #32 was called Ribault Elementary from 1926 until 1964. It was named for the French explorer, Jean Ribault, who discovered this area in 1562 and claimed it for France.

From 1964 to approximately 1968 this building was used as an annex to Mayport Elementary which was opened in 1964 and supposed to replace Ribault Elementary.

In 1968, school #32 reopened as"Title III ESEA Federal Project" and was called the Marine Science Education Center. In 1971, the Marine Science Education Center once again became school #32 in the Duval County School System (City of Jacksonville) and has remained as such to the present date.

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Elementary Program

The Center’s elementary program services fifth grade students in the Duval County Public Schools. Following the completion of an oceanography unit at school, students come to the Center for a day of marine lab and field activities related to the fifth grade science program.

Half the day is spent in labs. Their classroom teacher conducts labs on plankton, conductivity, distillation of seawater, identifying minerals in our local sand, classifying and adaptations of marine animals. The afternoon is spent on the beach studying the dune systems, identifying forms of pollution, and collecting fossils and shells.

Elementary School Schedule for 2009/2010

5th Grade
Workshop Schedule for 2008/2009
and Registration
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Teacher Field Trip Check List 
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The 2008/2009A Student Permission Slip

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Vocational Program

 

The commercial fishing program at the Marine Science Center is open to full time students. The typical student is behind in school, 16 to 19 years of age, likes fishing, thinking of dropping out of school or a student who has already dropped out and has decided to return to school. Their day is broken into two parts, commercial fishing and academic components. Students completing the program will receive a completion certificate for their commercial fishing and a standard diploma from the Duval County School Board.

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Marine Science Education Center #32

1347 Palmer Street

Mayport, Florida 32233

Phone (904) 247-5973 Fax (904)-247-5976

Webmaster.......B.J. Viers . .
updated  June 7, 2009

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