Edgewater High School
| Edgewater High School | |
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3100 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, Florida 32804-3798 USA |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Established | 1951 |
| School district | Orange County Public Schools |
| Principal | Dr. Mark Shanoff |
| Faculty | 120 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,976 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Red & White |
| Mascot | Eagles |
| Yearbook | Odasagiah |
| Website | Edgewater High School Official Website |
Edgewater High School is a public secondary school located in the College Park section of Orlando, Florida. It is operated by the Orange County Public Schools system. The athletic teams are known as the 'Fighting Eagles' with colors red and white. Edgewater earned a C on the State of Florida D.O.E. school report card for 2016.
Student enrollment for 2016-2017 is 2032. EHS draws in students primarily from College Park, Colonialtown, Eatonville, Lake Fairview, Rosemont, Spring Lake, western portions of Maitland and Winter Park, and downtown Orlando. Feeder middle schools include College Park (the former Robert E. Lee ), Howard, Lockhart, and Maitland. In addition, the school has 120 faculty members. 85% of graduating seniors report intending to attend a college or university after graduation. The school newspaper The Eagle Eye is a member of the High School National Ad Network.
In 1950, the School Board of Orange County, Florida unveiled plans to build two new high schools in Orlando. These two schools were built from the same architectural plans and both were opened on the same day, Tuesday, September 2, 1952. The first was named William R. Boone High School and the second was named Edgewater High School. Boone was named for William R. Boone, a long-serving principal of the original Orlando High School (which is now Howard Middle School, on Robinson Street in downtown Orlando, near Lake Eola). The campuses of Boone and Edgewater contained identical buildings, but their arrangement on each campus is different. Edgewater's first principal was Mr. Orville R. Davis, a veteran of Orange County Public Schools, who was once the principal of the original Memorial Junior High School (now Memorial Middle School), also in Orlando.
Edgewater and Boone were originally to be named North and South High Schools, respectively. However, William R. Boone, who was to be principal of South, died the summer before the schools opened. South High was renamed in his memory. North High was then named for the road it was built beside, Edgewater Drive.
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