Florin High School

Infobox School
name=Florin High School


established=1989
principal= Mark Cerutti
type=Public
location= 7956 Cottonwood Lane
Sacramento, CA
information= [phone]
district=Elk Grove Unified School District
website= [http://www.egusd.k12.ca.us/florinhigh/ Florin High School]

Florin High School is a high school in Sacramento, California. It is part of the Elk Grove Unified School District. The school mascot is the black panther. The school colors are maroon and gold.

History

Florin High School opened in 1989, the third high school in the district. It has since then remained in continuous operation. The district named Florin High after Florin, a neighborhood in unincorporated Sacramento County, California that used to be a farming community growing primarily strawberries until a combination of the Japanese American Internment and land development replaced the strawberry fields with suburban tracts.

Architecture

Florin High School's architecture adopts the University of Virginia's "academical village" building plan. [ [http://www.egusd.k12.ca.us/district/schools.htm#| Elk Grove Unified School District] (Click on Florin in High School section)] This plan anchors the school on the library. Two parallel rows of classrooms run down from behind the library with a manicured lawn in between the two rows. Other permanent classrooms exist as contemporaries to the anchor architecture plan. Since the school's inception the Elk Grove Unified School District has added a number of other permanent and temporary classrooms.

Notable alumni

* Ephraim Salaam, offensive lineman in the NFL
* Phil Tayag, Member of Americas Best Dance Crew Jabbawockeez

External links

* [http://www.egusd.k12.ca.us/FlorinHigh Official site]
* [http://www.egusd.k12.ca.us/district/pdfs/Current_HSMS_Boundary_2006.pdf School boundaries]

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