A. Philip Randolph Academies of Technology, also known as Randolph Skill Center High School and formerly known as Northside Skills Center, is one of twelvehigh schools in Jacksonville, Florida to offer the advanced curriculum and skills training of Duval County's MAGNET programs. It was the first of three skill centers to be built in Jacksonville for the sole purpose of teaching trades before being converted to academic use in 1997.
Namesake
The school was named in honor of A. Philip Randolph, an African-American labor movement and civil rights leader, during a standing-room-only dedication ceremony in 1980 in which Reverend Jesse Jackson was the keynote speaker. While his namesake was included in the full name of the school, it was not common to refer to the school by his name until its reappropriation.
Academic programs
Information technology (computer science)
The highest level of the building in the center is focused for this particular subject. The list included web design, presentation, along with programming and maintenance of computer systems to name a few.
Construction
Students get hands on experience with tools and they are taught how to practice safety and are taught to saw, nail, soft and hard soldering, arc welding etc. The can get their 10-hour online osha certificate which the student can go to on a job site show the construction manager and start working. They can also earn various other certificates from passing different tests that they take after reading chapters in the construction textbooks.
Brick masonry
Students get hands-on experience with tools and are taught safety with on-the-job training. They will learn the history behind how clay and shale brick is made and how its importance of the learning how graph plans. Also taught to make concrete mortar used in all Brick and block buildings, also to be an artist to create their own designs to construct their own brick projects and in three years of training, one would receive an apprentice brick masonry degree and also will have a trade that will always have use in the world.
The school does have child care for teenage mothers. Many of the programs that were once featured at APR were disassembled and re-established at Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology, what most consider to be APR's "brother school" in Jacksonville.
Sports and extracurricular activities
There are no sports activities at A. Philip Randolph, but there are extracurricular activities such as: Anime Club, Bible Study, Gentlemen of Randolph, Ladies of Randolph and a High School National Honours Society ScholarshipScheduled Meetings, and Student Council. HOSA for the health academy BPA for IT
