Lake Brantley High School - Altamonte Springs, Florida/FL

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Lake Brantley High School

991 Sand Lake Road, Altamonte Springs, FL, 32714-7055 -

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Definition of Terms

Lake Brantley High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Seminole County, FL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

3316 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

166 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 927 students

Grade 10 - 836 students

Grade 11 - 810 students

Grade 12 - 743 students

This School

( FL ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:20

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( FL ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	3%	2%
% Hispanic	19%	22%
% Black	8%	28%
% White	69%	47%
% Unknown	1 %	2%

Additional Student Information

This School

( FL ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

11%

42%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( FL ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Seminole County School District

This School's Agency

( FL ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	77	20
Number of Students Managed	81,596 students	12,279 students
District Total Revenue	$529,073,000	$110,828,000
District Expenditure	$534,139,000	$112,427,000
District Revenue / Student	$6,484	$7,795
District Expenditure / Student	$6,546	$7,471
District Graduation Rates	92%	81%

Lake Brantley High School (LBHS) is located in Altamonte Springs, Florida, a suburban community approximately 13 miles (20km) north of Orlando, Florida, USA. It is a public high school in Seminole County, FL. The school, which opened in 1972, ranked 79th on Newsweek magazine's 2005 list of the top 100 high schools in the United States.
Origins: In 1969 the School Board of Seminole County, Florida determined that because of projected population growth, three new schools would need to be built in the southern part of the county. School Board Chairman John G. Angel proposed a $10 million bond issue to fund these schools, and the issue was handily approved by the voters. The plan was that an elementary school, a middle school and a high school all be built adjacent to each other in an "educational plaza" on Sand Lake Road, just west of Forest City Road. All three schools (and several others in the next few years) were designed by architect Eoghan Kelley, a somewhat controversial figure in Central Florida in his day.
Kelley's designs were based in part on a trend of the early 1970s called the Open School Concept. The outer school building was composed of large, simple geometric shapes with no windows, and the interior of each module was so laid out that it had few permanent walls; instead, movable walls abounded and very few of the classrooms had any doors. This was supposedly done to facilitate free movement between the rooms and other resources (such as the libraries) in each module. As the first few years were to make clear, the "no-doors" concept proved a failure, with teachers complaining constantly about noise from other rooms and halls. Eventually all the gaps were boarded up and each classroom got a door.
Kelley also stated that he had designed each school to be a fallout shelter if ever needed. (There was controversy as to whether these buildings were stout enough to play such a role, no exterior windows notwithstanding. They contained no steel reinforcement in the outer cinder-block walls, and engineers doubt that they could stand up to a hurricane stronger than Category 2 or even a tornado, let alone a nuclear weapon.) Kelley was awarded the contract to design the Educational Plaza schools and several others in Seminole County, as well as other schools in Florida, primarily in Pasco County.
The first school, Forest City Elementary, was completed in 1971 and its first principal was Mr. John Otto. Teague Middle School was completed in 1972 and John Angel, by then retired from the school board, became its first principal. Lake Brantley High School was actually opened in 1973 and its first principal was Mr. William ("Bill") Daugherty.
Bill Daugherty first proposed the plans for Lake Brantley to the school board in 1971, and, because construction of the new building was not complete, classes were first started in September 1972 on the old Lyman High School campus. (This old campus is now the site of R. T. Milwee Middle School; the new (1970) and present site of Lyman High is a mile to the north.) The new building was finally completed in February 1973, and Lake Brantley's 900 students moved across town and started classes on February 15. The new building was officially dedicated on May 15, 1973.
LBHS' first official year in the new building began on September 4, 1973 with 1,100 students in two grades, 9 and 10. One grade was added in each of the next two years and LBHS' first graduating class matriculated on June 8, 1975. Because enrollment was growing so quickly, a New Addition to the original building was completed in the summer of 1975, at a cost of $3,500,000 - which was the entire cost of the original building, some five times larger than the addition. (Rampant inflation overtook John Angel's original budget, and the original school was built for only $17 a square foot. This was to come back to haunt the school board in later years.) The stadium, Tom Storey Field, was finished and dedicated in November 1975, and its final improved cost (including the concrete bleachers structure and a scoreboard) was $70,000. The open-air commons was roofed over during this time as well, and the final size of LBHS was 220,000 square feet (about 20,500 square meters) or approximately 5 acres (2.05 hectares) of enclosed building.
Within just six years, serious flaws in construction and material quality began to appear, and massive roof leaks appeared in many different places. Two major repair and refurbishing projects were undertaken in 1980 and 1985, but eventually, the school board had had enough, and plans were unveiled in 1996 to demolish the school and rebuild it from the ground up. By 1979, Seminole County had given up on Eoghan Kelley and by 1996 all but two of his Seminole County schools - all designed and built in the same way - were torn down, and only a couple fragments remain of the others: the gymnasium of Lake Howell High School, and a partial addition to the original Teague Middle School. His Pasco County schools are still standing.
The new school design was thoroughly traditional, consisting of many different buildings instead of the old monolithic structure. The projected cost was $39 million, which wound up being $41 million even after some proposed items were omitted - quite a lot more than the $7.1 million cost of the first school. Construction of the present LBHS began in 1998, and demolition of the original building began the day after classes ended in May 1999. Demolition was complete by August, and the new school buildings opened for business the same month - not totally finished. Of all the structures on campus today, only the stadium is original. All of the east wall and about a third of the north wall of the original 700-module (which held Band, Chorus, Dance and part of the gymnasium concessionary) were left intact and re-used as the outer walls adjacent to the auditorium and the cafeteria. They are now the only remaining fragments of the original school.
Facts: Highest ACT and SAT scores within the district for 2002 and significantly higher than the state average.
Over 1600 Advanced Placement tests administered in 2003.
821 students scored 3 or higher on the 2003 AP tests.
In the class of 2005, there were 4 National Merit Finalists.
Notable students: Dee Brown - professional football player.
Chris DiMarco - professional golfer.
Michael Johnson - musician.
Hunter Kemper - Olympic triathlete.
Scott Levy (graduated 1990) - actor.
Jason Varitek (graduated 1990) - professional baseball player.
Felipe L�pez (graduated 1998) - professional baseball player.
Kara Monaco - (graduated 2001) Playboy's Playmate of the Year 2006.
Andrew Seeley (graduated 2000) - actor.
Rob Thomas - lead singer of Matchbox Twenty.
Rickie Weeks (graduated 2000) - professional baseball player.
Matt Heafy and Travis Smith - members of metal band Trivium.
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About This Zip Code (32714)

School Zip (32714)

(FL) State Average

Population (Approximate)

34,656 people

15,366,089 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

40%

27%

Population Average Age

33 years old

38.7 years old

Average Household size

2.4 persons

2.3 persons

Median Household Income

$44,130

$38,451

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

4.8 rooms

5.0 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

26 years old

32 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

45% / 55%

67% / 33%

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