Dr. Phillips High School
Dr Phillips High School is a public high school located in Dr Phillips, Florida, USA, near Orlando.
It serves the following: the place designated by the census (CDP) of Dr Phillips, the residential portion of Lake Buena Vista and the CDP Bay Hill.
Story
Dr Phillips High School, serves around 2,500 students in the Dr Phillips neighbourhood of southwest Orange County, Florida, began in 1987.
Within the city borders of Orlando and unincorporated Orange County, the campus is situated on 55 acres (220,000 m 2) of land.
Bill Spoone, the school’s first principal, eventually became a member of the Orange County School Board. The football stadium bears his name. The school’s gym is named after its second principal, Larry Payne, nicknamed “The House of Payne”.
With overcrowding, the school had to start employing portable classrooms on the North Campus, formerly the 9th Grade Center. Many non-freshman classes have been transferred to additional portable classrooms in the 9th Grade Center due to overcrowding on the main campus. The name of the 9th Grade Center was changed to North Campus because the pupils in the classes were mixed, and the main campus was called South Campus. Portable classrooms are still in use on the North Campus and are primarily intended for first-year classes.
The college has 3,857 students in the 2020-21 school year, with Hispanic: 38.3%, African American: 29.6%, White:23.6%, Asian:6.1%, Two or more races:2.0%, Pacific Islander:0.2%, American Indian:0.2%.
The school underwent a string of renovations which were completed in 2015. A new building was added and new VPA classrooms on the south campus.
Athletics
The Bill Spoone Stadium press box has been dedicated to Mike Murray, “The Voice of the Panthers” since the school opened in 1987. Murray was elected to the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001 as a full-time employee of a principal aerospace contractor who the institution did not formally employ.
John Barbati Field is the school’s baseball facility. In 1992, they renovated the baseball facilities with a press room, team office and state-of-the-art facilities. The new facility was designed and built by William P. Riegert, CEO of Cox Associates, and Architects. It was handed over to the OC School Board in a groundbreaking ceremony on February 22, 1992. At present, the Press Box is dedicated to Scott Muhlhann, 1992 baseball player and promotion major, who died of cancer in 1998.
Dr Phillips’ mascot is the Panther, specifically the Florida panther. They play many sports, including lacrosse, football, baseball, golf, basketball, and swimming.
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