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| Stranahan High School | |
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1800 SW 5th Place Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312 United States | |
| Coordinates | 26°06′42″N 80°09′54″W / 26.1117534°N 80.165046°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1953 |
| School district | Broward County Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Dr. Peter B. Licata |
| Principal | Michelle Padura |
| Teaching staff | 65.00 (FTE)[1] |
| Number of students | 1,438 (2022–23)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 22.12[1] |
| Color(s) | Orange and Blue |
| Mascot | Mighty Dragon |
| Nickname | Home of the Dragons |
| Website | stranahan |
Stranahan High School, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was officially opened in 1953 as an elementary school. The school is a part of the Broward County Public Schools district. Originally for white students only, In 1963 Chester Seabury became the first African-American to graduate from a white high school in Florida when he graduated from Stranahan.[2][3]
The school was built on land donated by Ivy Julia Cromartie Stranahan and was named after her late husband Frank Stranahan. The school progressively added the junior high school grades a year at a time due to rapid population growth in the area. The school opened as a high school in 1957. The first principal of Stranahan was Kenneth Dale Haun. Kenneth Haun had been a Junior High Assistant Principal when he was picked to help design and then serve as principal of Stranahan until 1966. As the school added grades each year and then gradually dropped the middle school grades, Kenneth Haun continued as head of the school. He served as principal for nearly thirty years.[4] The school's unique design of separate buildings spread out more like a college campus was a result of limited funds to build the school. Buildings were gradually added in phases to accommodate the growth of the student population. The first hall building was converted to a 2-story building in the 1950s. During renovations of the first hall in the early 90s, there was a large fire that consumed most of the building. The building was renovated and it now contains the administration on the first floor and the second floor has English and social studies classrooms. The second hall has computer labs and foreign language classrooms. The third hall has art classrooms and the fourth hall has math. The magnet classrooms are mostly in the new science and medical magnet buildings. Previously some of the magnet classrooms were located in the second and third hall.
The current principal is Michelle Padura. Stranahan High has an FCAT school grade of "B" for the 2013 academic year.[5]
- ^ a b c "STRANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ^ Lewis, Gregory (October 18, 2006). "FLORRIE SEABURY, TEACHER WHO HELPED BREAK RACE BARRIER". SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ "CHESTER SEABURY - 1970S". Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ Haun, CD son of Kenneth Haun
- ^ FCAT School Grades – High Archived 2004-06-18 at the Wayback Machine