Oak Ridge High School (Orlando, Florida)

Oak Ridge High School
Address
700 W Oak Ridge Rd
Orlando, Florida, 32809
United States
Coordinates 28°28′18″N 81°23′04″W / 28.471740°N 81.384392°WCoordinates: 28°28′18″N 81°23′04″W / 28.471740°N 81.384392°W
Information
Motto "One team, one goal. Pioneering our way to an A!"
Established 1959
School district Orange County Public Schools
CEEB Code 101298
Principal Dr. Leigh Ann Bradshaw
Staff 31, plus 5 administrators and 4 deans
Faculty 140
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1720
Student to teacher ratio 18 [1]
School colour(s) Forest Green and Vegas Gold          
Athletics FHSAA Class 6A, District 5 [2]
Mascot Little Willie
Nickname Pioneers
Rival

Jones High School Maynard Evans High School

Cypress Creek High School
Website http://www.orhs.ocps.net/

Oak Ridge High School is a public secondary school in Orlando, Florida, established in 1956. The school has been rated as a D or F institution by the state every year since 2000. Last year though, the school has been awarded a C grade, breaking the low performance streak. As of now, the school has been awarded a B grade. [3]

Campus

The Campus has been expanded/remodeled since the founding of the school. During the summer of 2010, demolition began on the northern side of campus as the 600 building and "Fish Farm", which had been the Tech Ed building, was torn down to make room for the new school. The students are scheduled to move into the new building on a staggered schedule during the fall semester of the 2011-2012 school year.

Extracurricular activities

Activities available to Oak Ridge students include Athletic Training, AVID, Beta Club, Computer Programming and Gaming Club, Floetry Club, Haitian Club, National Honor Society, AP Club, Robotics, SAFE Ambassadors, Science National Honor Society, Spanish Club, Student Government, Yearbook, Courage Now, Youth 4 Change [Community Organizing & Social Justice] and Science Olympiad.

Marching band

The Oak Ridge Pioneer Marching Band is known as the Marching Pioneers. In the 2009 marching season the band made state semi-finals in FMBC with their show "Spanish Fantasy" and got straight superiors in FBA. They have marched in parades including the Universal Studios Christmas parade,the Downtown Christmas parade and the Martin Luther King Day Parade.

Athletics

The Oak Ridge Pioneers compete in interscholastic competition in football, flag football (girls only), bowling, track and field (Boys & Girls), Soccer (Boys & Girls), baseball, softball, basketball, cross country, swimming, and tennis (Boys & Girls).

The boy's track program won state championships in 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981 and 1982. The girl's program won championships in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 2004, 2006, and 2008.Oak Ridge Track and Field Website[4]

Curriculum

Oak Ridge is home to three district-wide magnet programs: Aviation and Aerospace Engineering, Digital Media and Gaming, and Hospitality Management. In the spring of 2011 Oak Ridge became a certified Project Lead The Way school.[5]

Notable alumni

City Year

In 2013, Oak Ridge brought in City Year, a national non-profit and AmeriCorps organization aimed at reducing the dropout crisis in high-needs urban schools. Ten City Year corps members sported red City Year bomber jackets and now serve as full-time tutors and mentors for 9th graders. In the 2012-13 school year 75% of those students regularly tutored by City Year mentors increased their grade in that core subject.

References

  1. ↑ "Student Teacher Ratio Oak Ridge High School - Orlando, Florida - FL". GreatSchools.net.
  2. ↑ "School Information". Florida High School Activities Association.
  3. ↑ Selvaggi Baumann, Christine (2005-04-15). "Ex-principal's suit claims reverse bias in her demotion". Orlando Business Journal.
  4. ↑ "Records". FHSAA. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Orange County Public Schools - Senior High Magnet Programs".

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