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Crooms Academy/info Technology High School
2200 W 13th Street, Sanford, FL, 32771-1636 -  Map
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School Overview:
Definition of Terms Crooms Academy/info Technology High School
School Level High school
School Type Magnet School
Grades Offered Grades 9 - 12
County Seminole County, FL
Students & Faculty
Total Students 540 students
% Male / % Female 67%  /  33%
Total Classroom Teachers 34 teachers
Students by Grade
Grade 9 - 179 students
Grade 10 - 152 students
Grade 11 - 122 students
Grade 12 - 87 students
This School ( FL ) School Average
Teacher : Student Ratio 1:16 1:16
Students by Ethnicity
This School ( FL ) School Average
% American Indian n/a n/a
% Asian 3% 2%
% Hispanic 17% 22%
% Black 26% 28%
% White 55% 47%
Additional Student Information
This School ( FL ) School Average
% Eligible for Free Lunch 21% 42%
% Eligible for Reduced Lunch 12% 9%
% Migrant Students Enrolled n/a n/a
School Performance:
( FL ) Statewide Testing Performance
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School District:
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%
School Notes:
  • Crooms Academy of Information Technology (CAIT), locally called Crooms, is a technology magnet school located in Sanford, Florida.
  • Widely known for being one of the few schools in the U.S. that issues laptops to every student, Crooms is much smaller than normal high schools.
  • History: Crooms Academy was originally founded by Professor Crooms as the county's first high school for Black students. In 1970 however, Crooms lost its identity and became a school for students with behavior problems, and even for pregnant teenagers. Soon, it became a school for students who struggled academically.
  • In 1973, the original building burned down and because of neglect, the other buildings deteriorated. In 2000, the school was rebuilt into a school for information technology, and it still is.
  • The Buildings: The campus itself consists of a two story building consisting mostly of classrooms and computer labs (Building 1), a gym (Building 3), and a cafetorium (a combination of a cafeteria and an auditorium)(Building 2). The cafetorium building also houses four classrooms and a computer lab.
  • The Technology: Dell is the number one supplier of the technology at Crooms. Each student is issued a laptop based on grade and condition of previously issued laptops.
  • Being a small, technology based school, it has many locations that other hight schools do not have. Because of the constant need to repair the students' laptops, the school has a repair location officially called Laptop Central, which is commonly called the Sickbay. While a student's laptop is in the Sickbay, there is usually a desktop computer for the student to use to do his work. Also, the school library is more technology based, with charging stations for the laptops, several IMacs, and only a few shelves of books and magazines. Because of this, it is called the Cyber Center.
  • Students also usually pay an insurance fee and a user fee to help cover the costs of upkeeping the laptops. The combined costs are usually around $100.
  • Freshmen in the school are issued Dell Latitude D600 Series Laptops featuring the Intel Pentium M (Banias) Processor@ 1.4GHz and Dell 1350BG Wireless Cards.
  • Sophomores receive a Dell Latitude D600 Series featuring Intel Centrino Mobile Technology with the Pentium M (Banias) Processor@ 1.3GHz and an IntelPRO 2100B Wireless Card. (Some Sophomores received new machines depending on how well their laptops were the previous year.).
  • Juniors receive new laptops that are ordered every year, 2006-2007's Juniors receive the Dell Latitude D620 Series Laptops with a 14.1 Inch Widescreen WXGA+ Display and Intel Core Duo Mobile Technology. The specs for these are the Intel Core Duo T2300(Yonah) @ 1.66(x2) GHz Processor and the IntelPRO Wireless 3495ABG Mini PCI-E WLAN Card.
  • Seniors (and select sophomores) receive Dell Latitude D610 Series Laptops Featuring the 2nd Generation of Intel Pentium M Processors(Dothan2 "Sonoma")@1.86GHz and Dell Wireless 1370BG Wireless cards similar to the 1350BG series.
  • All PC's across the board have 512MB of memory (The D610's with DDR2-400 and the D620's with DDR2-667) and Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
  • The Crooms Tech Team has purchased, along with these laptops, InfoCase Casemates to help protect the laptops. Accidental damage to the laptops is usually covered by the insurance fee but extensive or intentional damage may result in an additional charge or loss of laptop privileges.
  • The school also uses SMARTBoards in most of the classrooms. The SMARTBoards act like regular whiteboards except there is no ink or marker waste, things "written" on the board can be saved to the computer, and it is easy for students to use. A standard projector connected to a computer shows the image on the board. It usually has 4 pens (Black, Blue, Red, and Green) for students to write with and an eraser tool. The SMARTBoard is connected via a USB port to the computer.
  • Many students who are technologically savvy have shown their skills in various ways, some make programs, others build computers, and some have created websites.
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School Zip Code:
About This Zip Code (32771)
School Zip (32771) (FL) State Average
Population (Approximate) 30,491 people 15,366,089 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree 24% 27%
Population Average Age 36 years old 38.7 years old
Average Household size 2.6 persons 2.3 persons
Median Household Income $32,826 $38,451
Avg. # of Rooms in Household 5.3 rooms 5.0 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure 37 years old 32 years old
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% Owning / % Renting 64% / 36% 67% / 33%
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