Land O' Lakes High School
| Land O' Lakes High School | |
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20325 Gator Lane Land O' Lakes, Florida United States |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | Fighting Gators |
| Established | July 3, 1975 |
| School district | Pasco County |
| Principal | Ric Mellin |
| Faculty | Approximately 190 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1719 |
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| Athletics | Baseball, boys' and girls' basketball, cheerleading, cross-country, football, boys' and girls' golf, boys' and girls' soccer, varsity softball, boys' and girls' swimming & diving, boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' track, varsity volleyball, boys' and girls' weightlifting, varsity wrestling |
| Mascot | Fighting Gator |
| Yearbook | Alligate |
| Emblem | A wading alligator |
| Website | lolhs.pasco.k12.fl.us |
Land O' Lakes High School is a four-year public high school in Land O' Lakes, Florida. It is a part of the Pasco County Schools District in Pasco County. The school mascot is the Fighting Gators.
Construction of Land O' Lakes High School began in 1973. Leroy McClain was named principal and began hiring staff. Because of critical overcrowding across the county due to a population jump, classes were held in double sessions at nearby Sanders Memorial Elementary School while the school was being built. When the school finally opened two years later, it served 1,400 students in grades 7 through 12. Five years later, Pine View Middle School was built to hold grades 6 through 8.
From 2003 to 2007, Land O' Lakes operated on a 10-period bell schedule to ease crowding with most freshmen attending classes from 10:25 AM to 4:45 PM and sophomores, juniors and seniors attending from 7:35 a.m. to 2 p.m. This was discontinued in 2007, when Sunlake High School opened.
The class of 2008 was the largest in the school's history, with nearly 600 graduates.
Ric Mellin, formerly the principal of J.W. Mitchell High School, became Land O' Lakes' sixth principal in March 2009. He replaced Monica Ilse, who was appointed principal of the new Anclote High School in Holiday, Florida (opened in August 2009).
In 2012, the school hosted a rally for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, which attracted 15,000 people.
In 1996, Pasco County began implementing the first in a series of Philadelphia Model career academies, which the District called Learning Communities. Land O' Lakes High School started one of these, called the Academy of Business Technology. ABT started with 9th grade and included teachers Michelle Auger (Science), Elaine Brubaker (Business), Karen Latusek (Business), Mark Pearson (English), Amy Smith (Math), and Mark A. Thompson (Social Studies). ABT employed integrated curricular instruction and real-life business contexts to teach college-level academics as well as job skills. Pearson and Smith are still on the faculty of LOLHS. Thompson later became Executive Director of the National Educator Program (NEP), implementing career academies like ABT throughout the United States and the first ever in Afghanistan, China and Uganda.
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