Edgewater High School
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| Established | 1951 |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Principal | Rob Anderson |
| Faculty | 160 (2006) |
| Students | 2,300 (2007) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | 3100 Edgewater Drive Orlando, Florida 32804, Florida, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Mascot | Eagles |
| Yearbook | Odasagiah |
| Newspaper | Eagle Eye |
| Website | [1] |
Edgewater High School is a high school located in the College Park section of Orlando, Florida. The athletic teams are known as the 'Fighting Eagles'.
Student enrollment for 2007 is 2,200. In addition, the school has 160 faculty members. 85% of graduating seniors report intending to attend a college or university after graduation. Its newspaper is The Eagle Eye, which is a member of the High School National Ad Network.
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[edit] Origins
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 EHS contained identical buildings, but their arrangement on each campus is different. EHS' first principal was Mr. Orville R. Davis, a veteran of the Orange County Public Schools, who was once the principal of the original Memorial Junior High School (which is now Cherokee Middle School).
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.
[edit] Sports
Edgewater has achieved significant success in a wide array of sports at the regional, state, and even national levels.
The Eagle football team reached the Florida Class 6A Championship game three straight years between 2002 and 2004. Concurrently, the Eagle basketball team also the Class 6A State Championship game during the 2002-03 and 2003-04 school years, going all the way to victory in 2003-04.
Recent Edgewater teams have also received significant national acclaim. The 2003-04 school year was a banner year for Edgewater sport notoriety, as the men's basketball team, after wrapping up the school's first State Basketball Championship, reached the #6 rank in the USA Today national prep basketball rankings[1] . The football team also caught the eye of many pollsters that year, starting the year ranked #5 on the American Football Monthly poll [2], and persisting in the national spotlight all season, making it to #19 in the USA Today national prep football polls before falling to Miami Killian in the championship game [3]. Basketball player Darius Washington also was voted as a Parade 1st Team All-American and McDonald's All-American that season.
A complete list of athletic achievements is maintained here. The school has won a state championship in Men's basketball (2004).[4]
[edit] Alumni
- Davis Gaines, broadway superstar, best known for performing the role of Phantom, in the [Phantom of the Opera].
- Michael James Nelson, Writer/Producer The Bachelor, Miracle Workers, National Lampoon Comedy
- Tina Wood, Television Host/Writer, best known for hosting G-Phoria with Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro and stumping actor Robin Williams.
- Howie Dorough, member of the Backstreet Boys.[citation needed]
- Darius Washington, basketball guard, currently a member of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs
- Russ Rollins, creator and talent of a national talk radio show called The_Monsters_Of_The_Morning
- Michael Gonzalez, creator of Howtobelike.com, a wiki that has over a 10,000 hits a day.
