Florin High School
Florin High School is a high school in Sacramento, California. It is part of the Elk Grove Unified School District.
| Florin High School | |
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| Location | |
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7956 Cottonwood Lane Sacramento, CA | |
| Coordinates | 38.46823°N 121.39126°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1989 |
| School district | Elk Grove Unified School District |
| Principal | Rudy Ortega Jr. |
| Faculty | 81.97 (FTE)[1] |
| Enrollment | 1,548 (2018-19)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.88[1] |
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| Mascot | Panther |
| Rival | Monterey Trail High School and Valley High School |
| Website | Official website |
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.[2] 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, played for Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos.[3][4]
Footnotes
- "Florin High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- Elk Grove Unified School District Archived 2007-03-22 at the Wayback Machine(Click on Florin in High School section)
- "NFL Draft picks from the Sac-Joaquin Section the past 20 years - MaxPreps". MaxPreps.com. 2014-05-20. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
- "Ephraim Salaam Represents Muslim Atheletes [sic] at U.S. State Department". Muslim Journal. Chicago. 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2019-12-07.

