A. P. Leto High School

Infobox US school
name = A.P Leto High School


image caption =
location = 4409 W. Sligh Avenue
Tampa, Florida, 33614
USA
coordinates = coord|28.011377,-82.518681
motto = Where Students EXCEL beyond their highest expectations
established = 1965
type = Free public
district = Hillsborough County Public Schools
grades = 9 - 12
principal = Dave Brown
campus type = Suburb
campus size =
enrollment = 1790
budget =
faculty = 98
mascot = Falcon
mascot

colors = Red, Gold, and White color box|Red color box|gold color box|white
homepage = http://www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/~leto.high

A. P. Leto Comprehensive High School is a public high school within the Hillsborough County School District and is located at 4409 West Sligh Avenue in Tampa, Florida, USA. Leto hosts grades 9-12 and adult night school.

chool Characteristics

A.P. Leto Comprehensive High School is an inner-city school that is nestled in a predominantly Hispanic part of a coastal, central Florida city. The initial year of operation was 1965, opening with grades nine through eleven. The school now consists of grades nine through twelve and is a true comprehensive high school. The school recently went through a fifteen million dollar renovation restoring and upgrading this one of a kind facility.

The facility is an open-air design with Individual buildings connected by covered walkways. The facility includes a football, baseball, and softball fields, as well as a gymnasium, auditorium and multi-purpose room. The school also has vocational facilities for automotive, carpentry, computer repair, agriculture, cosmetology, family and consumer sciences, health occupations, and a new addition to be completed in March 2006 for culinary arts. There is a full service media center and seven student centered computer labs.

The faculty of the school consists of 218 employees separated into administrative, instructional, non-instructional, clerical, and custodial classifications. There is a principal and five assistant principals that comprise the administrative staff and 98 teachers that fall into the instructional classification.

Ethnicity / Demographics

The school currently operates as a Title I school (receiving additional funds from the federal government) with 66.4% of the student population free or reduced lunch eligible. [HCSD school info. Unknown Publication Date. Hillsbourough County Public Schools. 22 Sep. 2007. http://www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/schools/School_Info.asp?site=2421.]

History

The school is named in honor Ateo Phillip Leto, a former principal at Jefferson and at Chamberlain High School in Tampa. He was originally to serve as the school's first principal but died before the school year began.

Leto was established in 1965 with only grades with 9-11 and did not graduate a class until 1967. Although the largest school in Hillsborough County, it lacked a gymnasium and stadium. Leto opened with 1,670 students it first year. The school is situated on 37 acres.

The school colors are Vegas gold, scarlet red, and white. The school mascot is the Falcon. Several traditions are upheld at Leto including Class Capers, Spirit Week, and Night to Fly

Publications

"The Leto Legend" - Student-run and produced newspaper for Leto High School.
"The Quill" - Literary magazine of student poetry, art and prose.
"The Talon" - Student-run and produced yearbook for Leto High School.

Graduation rates

2004-05 = 86%
2003-04 = 81%
2001-02 = 69%
2000-01 = 67.9%
1999-00 = 59%
[Leto 2006 Self Study. Unknown Publication Date. Leto High School. 22 Sep. 2007. http://www1.sdhc.k12.fl.us/~leto.high/Files/SAC/Selfstudy2006.doc.]

chool Report Card

2007-08 = C2006-07 = D
2005-06 = C
2004-05 = C
2003-04 = D
2002-03 = D
2001-02 = D
2000-01 = C
1999-00 = C
1998-99 = C
[Leto School Accountability Report. Unknown Publication Date. Florida Department of Education. 22 Sep. 2007. http://schoolgrades.fldoe.org/default.asp?action=verifySelectionSchool&report=SG&districts=29&schoolYear=2006-2007%2C+2005-2006%2C+2004-2005%2C+2003-2004%2C+2002-2003%2C+2001-2002%2C+2000-2001%2C+1999-2000%2C+1998-1999&school_grade=&level=School&schoolNumbers=292421.]

Improvement

Leto was one of 16 schools nation-wide selected by the College Board for inclusion in the EXCELerator "School Improvement Model" program beginning the 2007-2008 school year. The project was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Notable alumni

Michael Jenkins '99 (Mike Jenkins)- Wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons. All time leader in receiving yardage for The Ohio State University Buckeyes.

William Michael Prickett '94 (Billy Prickett) (Michael Prickett) - Long Snapper / Nose Tackle at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels. Carquest Bowl Champions 1995, Gator Bowl Champions 1997

Douglas Miller '94 (Doug Miller) - Tackle for the Arena Football League Orlando Predators. Tackle for the Atlanta Falcons.

Mike Figga - Former major league baseball catcher for the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles.

Notes

Fran Snyder - singer/songwriter, founder of ConcertsInYourHome.com http://fransnyder.com

External links

* [http://www1.sdhc.k12.fl.us/~leto.high/ A. P. Leto High School website]