Florin High School
| Florin High School | |
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| Location | |
| 7956 Cottonwood Lane Sacramento, CA |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1989 |
| School district | Elk Grove Unified School District |
| Principal | Mr. Don Ross |
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| Mascot | Panthers |
| Rival | Monterey Trail High School |
| Information | (916) 689-8600 |
| Website | Official website |
Florin High School is a high school in Sacramento, California. It is part of the Elk Grove Unified School District.
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[edit] History
Florin High School opened in 1989, the third high school in the district. It has since then remained in continuous operation. The district named Florin High after Florin, a neighborhood in unincorporated Sacramento County, California that used to be a farming community growing primarily strawberries until a combination of the Japanese American Internment and land development replaced the strawberry fields with suburban tracts.
[edit] Architecture
Florin High School's architecture adopts the University of Virginia's "academical village" building plan.[1] This plan anchors the school on the library. Two parallel rows of classrooms run down from behind the library with a manicured lawn in between the two rows. Other permanent classrooms exist as contemporaries to the anchor architecture plan. Since the school's inception, the Elk Grove Unified School District has added a number of other permanent and temporary classrooms.
[edit] Administration
Mr. Don Ross is the current principal.
Previous Principals:
- William Morones 2009-2010 (now principal of Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, Ca.)
- Mark Cerutti 2006-2009 (now Director of Secondary Education for Elk Grove Unified)
- Brad Watson (INTERIM) 2005-2006
- Phillip Moore 2002-2005
- Terry Chapman 1996-2002
- Dr. Odie Douglas 1992-1996 (now Assistant Superitendent for Lodi Unified)
- William Huyett 1989-1992 (now the superitendent of Berkeley Unified)
Mr Huyett was the school's first principal.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Ephraim Salaam, offensive lineman in the NFL
- Phil Tayag, Member of the Americas Best Dance Crews Season 1 winner The JabbaWokeeZ
Military
- Alan Bryant, 1994-current U.S. Army, 1994-2010 Military Police Corps, 2010-present Electronic Warfare Corps, Stationed in Ft. Hood, TX Rank: Master Sergeant (MSG)
Deployed to: Cuba 1994, Kosovo 1999/2001, Iraq 2004/2009, Afghanistan 2011
[edit] External links
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Elk Grove Unified School District(Click on Florin in High School section)
