2021 new football schools

[DarterBlue2]

1 hour ago, Trelle said:

Man I’m staying at the Parc Soleil right next to LBV didn’t even realize it at first with all the other construction going on looks like it will be a beautiful campus it’s also huge!
 

Do they anticipate it becoming an 8A school per attendance in the coming years and built it accordingly?

@Trelle, the great majority of Orange County public high schools are built to accommodate an 8A capacity. This has been the case since DP, Cypress Creek and University (back then it was a 5A capacity, as that was the largest class) were built in 1988.

I guess the theory was: since metro Orlando was growing rapidly, it was more cost effective to have very large high schools which could maximize the use of scarce land.  So, yes, I am pretty sure LBV and Horizon were built to accommodate roughly 3,000 kids at capacity. 

[FBGUY1989]

9 hours ago, DarterBlue2 said:

@Trelle, the great majority of Orange County public high schools are built to accommodate an 8A capacity. This has been the case since DP, Cypress Creek and University (back then it was a 5A capacity, as that was the largest class) were built in 1988.

I guess the theory was: since metro Orlando was growing rapidly, it was more cost effective to have very large high schools which could maximize the use of scarce land.  So, yes, I am pretty sure LBV and Horizon were built to accommodate roughly 3,000 kids at capacity. 

See this is smart on Orange County part because you have Miami and Broward with schools of 3, 000 plus but not considered overcrowded 

[HornetFan]

11 hours ago, DarterBlue2 said:

@Trelle, the great majority of Orange County public high schools are built to accommodate an 8A capacity. This has been the case since DP, Cypress Creek and University (back then it was a 5A capacity, as that was the largest class) were built in 1988.

I guess the theory was: since metro Orlando was growing rapidly, it was more cost effective to have very large high schools which could maximize the use of scarce land.  So, yes, I am pretty sure LBV and Horizon were built to accommodate roughly 3,000 kids at capacity. 

Winter Park has a separate campus for their 9th grade that is near Rollins College, a few miles from the WP main campus. There are approximately 1100 ninth graders at that campus. The Orange County, and for the most part, the Seminole County schools, are all at or near capacity. I think WP is over 4000 students.

[DarterBlue2]

1 hour ago, HornetFan said:

Winter Park has a separate campus for their 9th grade that is near Rollins College, a few miles from the WP main campus. There are approximately 1100 ninth graders at that campus. The Orange County, and for the most part, the Seminole County schools, are all at or near capacity. I think WP is over 4000 students.

I am very familiar with the 9th grade campus, or at least the old one, before it was rebuilt. Back then, I had a child that did his first two years of high school at Winter Park before finishing 11-12 at Apopka. Not sure what WP's enrollment stats are today, but in the first five years of this century, it had about 2,900 students of which about 20% were in the IB program.