Florin High School

Florin High School
Florin High School
Location
	7956 Cottonwood Lane; Sacramento, CA
Coordinates	38°28′06″N 121°23′29″W / 38.46823°N 121.39126°W
Information
Type	Public
Established	1989
School district	Elk Grove Unified School District
Principal	Brie Bajar
Enrollment	1,676 (2022-23)
Color(s)
Mascot	Panther
Rival	Monterey Trail High School and Valley High School
Website	fhs.egusd.net

Florin High School is a high school in Sacramento, California. It is part of the Elk Grove Unified School District and serves the portion of southern Sacramento that is to the east of California State Route 99.

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 23, 2024.
^ 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. Archived from the original on 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2019-12-07.

External links

[NCES-1] "Florin High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 23, 2024.

[2] Elk Grove Unified School District Archived 2007-03-22 at the Wayback Machine(Click on Florin in High School section)

[3] "NFL Draft picks from the Sac-Joaquin Section the past 20 years - MaxPreps". MaxPreps.com. 2014-05-20. Retrieved 2017-12-03.

[4] "Ephraim Salaam Represents Muslim Atheletes [sic] at U.S. State Department". Muslim Journal. Chicago. 2012-02-11. Archived from the original on 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2019-12-07.

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