Mr. Rick Fleming

Mr. Fleming is a 25 year resident of Brevard County and has been employed at several schools during this tenure. He began his teaching career in the Miami-Dade County school system back in 1988 and relocated to Brevard in 1994 after losing his home in the devastation of Hurricane Andrew. Mr. Fleming taught Social Studies and coached football at Hoover Jr. High School in 1994 before moving to Rockledge High as the Dean/Assistant Principal in 1995. After a three year tenure at Rockledge High Mr. Fleming moved to Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School as a twelve-month Assistant Principal in 1998. He became Principal at Jefferson Middle School in Merritt Island in 2002 where he remained until becoming the Principal here at West Shore in 2006. Mr. Fleming holds a B.S., M.S. and Ed.S. degrees in education and his hobbies are reading, fishing, landscaping, and cooking. He is married to his wife Robin of 30 years and they have four children: Katharine, who is a new mother to twins and a local Chiropractor, Eric and Tyler; twins, who are West Shore graduates and Bradley, who is currently a college student.