A former student at Ronald Reagan/Doral Senior High has filed suit against the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, claiming the school newspaper ruined his reputation by printing his photo with an article about sexually transmitted diseases.

Last February, Kenneth Clements was a senior at the school when the student paper, the Reagan Advocate, published a story titled “Teens Stay Quiet about STD’s.” The piece featured Clements’ picture with an X over his mouth, according to the complaint filed this month in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.

The publication “implied the Plaintiff was covertly hiding the alleged sexually transmitted disease, and thus implying the Plaintiff may knowingly be transmitting the disease to other persons, which is utterly despicable and utterly false,” the complaint reads.

Clements, now 18 and a college student, never consented to the photo nor was interviewed for the story — and he never had an STD, according to the suit.

His lawyer, Harry Shevin, is seeking “substantial damages” for defamation. “Basically they took what should have been one of best years of his life — his high school senior year — and turned it into the worst year of his life. It really puts a shadow on his reputation,” Shevin said. The article led to nicknames like “the STD boy,” Shevin said.

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools declined to comment. Spokesman John Schuster said the district does not comment on possible litigation.