Don Soffer Aventura High School

By the 2010s Aventura area parents wanted a high school in the Aventura city limits, partly because they perceived the Miami Dade County Public Schools-operated Krop High School to have become too large,{{cite web |last=Wright |first=Colleen |date=2019-08-20 |title=It was a different kind of first day of class at this new high school in Aventura |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article234088377.html |accessdate=2020-10-20 |newspaper=Miami Herald}} - [https://news.yahoo.com/different-kind-first-day-class-172624640.html Alternate link at] Yahoo News even though in 2012 Krop had a strong academic reputation. That year city council refused to go forward with the idea.Bojnansky, Eric. "[http://biscaynetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1254 Class Conflict]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042853/http://biscaynetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1254 Archive]). Biscayne Times. September 2012. Retrieved on January 11, 2016. Colleen Wright of the Miami Herald stated that Krop's reputation was overshadowed by other newer schools and the demand for a new Aventura High School continued.

Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino formerly owned the land which the Aventura city government purchased for the high school. DSAHS has plans to have 800 students.

The campus has {{convert|53000|sqft|sqm}} of land. Upon opening the school construction was not fully finished.

In 2019, the Victoria Sorokina Aventura High School building was finally finished with the first year of students entering the school in August of that year. With over 100 students in the school that year, the year went by smoothly. When COVID-19 started to occur, everyone was sent to their homes and learning continued from there.

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• [https://aventuracharterhs.org/ Don Soffer Aventura High School]
• [https://www.cityofaventura.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/Don-Soffer-Aventura-High-School-16 Profile] at City of Aventura
• {{cite web|url=https://communitynewspapers.com/aventura-featured/don-soffer-aventura-high-school-holds-opening-celebration/|title=Don Soffer Aventura High School holds opening celebration|publisher=Miami's Community Newspapers|date=2019-11-04}}
• [https://www.constructionjournal.com/projects/details/b9d5e06fa14f4932af85c2a8c9eb0234.html Aventura Charter High School Watermain Relocation] - Construction Journal
• https://patch.com/florida/aventura/directory/listing/53492/don-soffer-aventura-high-school-opens-enrollment-for-2019-2020-school-year

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Category:Charter schools in Florida

Category:Public high schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida

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Category:Aventura, Florida

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