West Orange High School is a secondary school located in Winter Garden in southwest Orange County, Florida, United States.
West Orange serves WinterGarden, Oakland, Gotha, and parts of Windermere and Ocoee.
Completed in 1975 at a cost of 6.5 million dollars, West Orange High was formed as a consolidation of two over-crowded high schools within western Orange County: Lakeview High School and Ocoee High School. Ocoee High School has since been rebu...
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West Orange High School is a secondary school located in Winter Garden in southwest Orange County, Florida, United States.
West Orange serves WinterGarden, Oakland, Gotha, and parts of Windermere and Ocoee.
Completed in 1975 at a cost of 6.5 million dollars, West Orange High was formed as a consolidation of two over-crowded high schools within western Orange County: Lakeview High School and Ocoee High School. Ocoee High School has since been rebuilt and reinstated due to overcrowding in West Orange and Apopka High School. The Lakeview High School site became Lakeview Junior High School. In recent times, Lakeview has undergone a campus expansion and renovation as Lakeview Middle School.
The first classes were held at Lakeview High School in September 1975. The first principal of the school was Lester Dabbs. Upon completion of the new facility, classes began onsite in January 1976.
Many of the teachers that first year transferred from Lakeview, Ocoee, and Evans High Schools. Some of the...
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