Florin High School
| Florin High School | |
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| Location | |
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7956 Cottonwood Lane Sacramento, CA | |
| Coordinates | 38°28′06″N 121°23′29″W / 38.46823°N 121.39126°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1989 |
| School district | Elk Grove Unified School District |
| Principal | Rudy Ortega Jr. |
| Faculty | 81.97 (FTE)[1] |
| Enrollment | 1,548 (2018-19)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.88[1] |
| Color(s) | |
| Mascot | Panther |
| Rival | Monterey Trail High School and Valley High School |
| Website | Official website |
Florin High School is a high school in Sacramento, California. It is part of the Elk Grove Unified School District.
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.
Architecture
Florin High School's architecture adopts the University of Virginia's "academical village" building plan.[2] 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.
Notable alumni
- Ephraim Salaam, offensive lineman in the NFL, played for Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos.[3][4]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c "Florin High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ Elk Grove Unified School District Archived 2007-03-22 at the Wayback Machine(Click on Florin in High School section)
- ^ "NFL Draft picks from the Sac-Joaquin Section the past 20 years - MaxPreps". MaxPreps.com. 2014-05-20. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
- ^ "Ephraim Salaam Represents Muslim Atheletes [sic] at U.S. State Department". Muslim Journal. Chicago. 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2019-12-07.