University High School (Orlando, Florida)
| University High School | |
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| Address | |
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11501 Eastwood Drive Orlando, Florida United States |
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| Type | Public secondary (with some magnet programs) |
| Motto | Contio Laureata (Latin: An Assembly of Honored Scholars) |
| Established | 1990 |
| School district | Orange County Public Schools |
| Principal | Dr. Cacara |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Number of students | 2,982 (2016-17) |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Mascot | Cougar |
| Newspaper | The Torch |
| Yearbook | Unity |
| Website | uhs.ocps.net |
University High School is a public high school in Orlando, Florida opened in 1990. The school is one of many public high schools in Orange County and is located about a mile from UCF. University High School has an International Baccalaureate program and used to have a Global Technologies (GT) magnet program, the Global Technologies Magnet was discontinued at University High School in the 2017-2018 school year. The school has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
University High School has two campuses, the East Campus (formerly the Freshman Campus) and the West Campus (also known as the Main Campus). The West Campus is the campus where the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classrooms are. The West Campus is designed in a square architectural layout with a courtyard in the middle. The East Campus is made up predominantly of portable classrooms and is located across the street from the West Campus.
The school's mascot is a Florida Cougar named Casey the Cougar. The school colors are navy blue and vegas gold. In 2004, the shade of gold was changed from a yellow gold to varsity gold. University's main rivals are Colonial High School and Timber Creek High School. UHS was built as a relief school for CHS in 1990 and Timber Creek was built as a relief school for UHS in 2002. East River was also built as a relief school for both University and Timber Creek in 2009.
University High School has one of the best drama departments in Florida. They have performed several popular plays and musicals such as Les Misérables, Ragtime, Carousel, Evita, Aida, Miss Saigon, The Wiz, Beauty and the Beast, Shrek, and Sweeney Todd. University has presented Lend Me A Tenor the fall of 2010, and was one of the first high schools in the world to put on the production Phantom of the Opera in Spring of 2011. They will be presenting Les Misérables again for the second time, after a well turn out the first time, having had a turn out of 5000 ticket sales.
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