Stranahan High School
| Stranahan High School | |
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| Address | |
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1800 SW 5th Place Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312 USA |
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| Coordinates | 26°06′42″N 80°09′54″W / 26.1117534°N 80.165046°WCoordinates: 26°06′42″N 80°09′54″W / 26.1117534°N 80.165046°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1953 |
| School district | Broward County Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Robert Runcie |
| Principal | Michelle Padura |
| Enrollment | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 1,672 |
| Color(s) | Orange and Blue |
| Mascot | Mighty Dragons |
| Nickname | Home of the Dragons |
| Website | stranahan |
Stranahan High school, is located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida was officially opened in 1953 as an elementary school. The school is a part of the Broward County Public Schools district.
The school was built on land donated by Ivy Cromartie Stranahan, and was named after her late husband Frank Stranahan. The school progressively added the junior high school grades a year at a time due to rapid population growth in the area. The school opened as a high school in 1957. The first principal of Stranahan was Kenneth Dale Haun. Kenneth Haun had been a Junior High Assistant Principal when he was picked to help design and then serve as principal of Stranahan. As the school added grades each year and then gradually dropped the middle school grades, Kenneth Haun continued as head of the school. He served as principal for nearly thirty years. The school's unique design of separate buildings spread out more like a college campus was a result of limited funds to build the school. Buildings were gradually added in phases to accommodate growth of the student population. The first hall building was converted to a 2 story building in the 70s. During renovations of first hall in the early 90s, there was a large fire that consumed most of the building. The building was renovated and it now contains the administration on the first floor and the second floor has English and social studies classrooms. The second hall has computer labs and foreign language classrooms. Third hall has art classrooms and fourth hall has math. The magnet classrooms are mostly in the new science and medical magnet buildings. Previously some of the magnet classrooms were located in second and third hall.
The current principal is Deborah Owens. Stranahan High has an FCAT school grade of "B" for the 2013 academic year.
Stranahan High School has two magnet programs dedicated to engineering and medical sciences. The magnet program's first graduating class was in 1997. It received a Gates Grant in 2005 and has begun a transition to small learning communities. The present community serving 9th grade students is CREST. Tenth through 12th grade students may choose among communities dedicated to business (downtown community), the arts (the studio community), technology and engineering (Sci-Tech community) or health related careers (the health pavilion community). In 2007 Stranahan was recognized by the College Board as one of three high schools in the nation to receive an "Inspiration Award" for outstanding achievement in minority student participation in Advanced Placement classes. It was also recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of the top 500 high schools in the country. According to the Florida Department of Education classification, Stranahan High School is ranked an "A" school.
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