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In response to the new enrollment size, a separate 9th grade center was built as a relief campus in what is now known as Waterford Elementary School. In the early 1990s, the 9th grade campus was moved closer to the original main campus, now located at 7775 Valencia College Lane, approximately 3 miles from the main campus. [6]
Six of the high schools in OCPS have separate ninth-grade centers, three of them off-site of the main campus, built after the shift from K–6/7–9/10–12 to K–5/6–8/9–12. Some elementary middle and high schools include magnet programs that allow students to specialize in particular subject areas.
A middle school is a school for students older than elementary school, but not yet in high school. This is a list of public middle schools in Florida serving grades six through eight and does not include schools of online education and private schools.
The student population peaked at 4,500 and in 1993 the 9th Grade Center opened 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west of the main campus. Evans' demographics also began to change in the 1980s as newer high schools were constructed on its periphery, removing previous students from its catchment area.
University High School serves the East Orlando neighborhoods of Union Park, Alafaya, University, Cypress Springs, and other unincorporated parts of East Orange County. University High School offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) magnet program, and a Performing Fine Arts magnet program which began in the 2019–20 school year.
Winter Park High School was constructed at 528 Huntington Avenue in 1923 and was one of the first high schools in Orange County. The school remained in this location until construction began in 1969 at the present location (2100 Summerfield Road). [2]
Middle school students moved to their own campus, Lake Nona Middle School, in the 2011–12 school year leaving Lake Nona High School to serve only grades 9–12. In Spring of 2012, Lake Nona High School allowed Valencia College students to go there while the new Valencia College was being built.
New to Central Florida high schools at the time, all classrooms and common areas were located within one contiguous building complex so that the weather did not affect the school day. The lunchroom "commons," as well as the library media center and auditorium, were designed to be located centrally within the complex.