Anclote High School is a public high school in Holiday, Florida

Holiday, Florida

Holiday , is a census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is a suburb included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 21,904 at the 2000 census.The name Holiday, like the names of many towns, comes from a spark...

. The school opened in August 2009 with grades 9 through 11; the first graduating class will be in 2011. Monica Ilse is the principal.

History

The school, designated as High School FFF in Pasco County Schools

Pasco County Schools

Pasco County Schools is a school district in Land O' Lakes, Florida, United States, which serves Pasco County, Florida.-Schools:...

' long-range plans, was named Anclote High School by vote of the Pasco School Board in September 2008.

Anclote High School is slated to open in August 2009 to relieve crowding at J.W. Mitchell High School and Gulf High School

Gulf High School (Florida)

Gulf High School is a four-year public high school in New Port Richey, Florida. It is part of the Pasco County School System in Pasco County, Florida. It is the first high school in western Pasco County and the second school in Pasco County to offer the International Baccalaureate Program, the...

.

Campus

The buildings, designed by Holmes Hepner & Associates, are slated to be LEED certified

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

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. The campus is designed to enhance grouping into four Professional Learning Communities

Professional Learning Community

A professional learning community is an extended learning opportunity to foster collaborative learning among colleagues within a particular work environment or field. It is often used in schools as a way to organize teachers into working groups....

: Business and Technology Community, Arts and Communication Community, Health and Human Services Community, Engineering and Science Community.

Curriculum

The school's learning communities offer relevant elective coursework to the community theme, such as

• courses in sports, law studies, and health sciences in the Health and Human Services Community,
• courses in art, journalism, multimedia production, music and dance performance in the Arts and Communication Community,
• courses in business cooperative education, information technology and networking in the Business and Technology Community, and
• courses in culinary arts and energy leadership for the Energy Academy, a career academy, in the Engineering and Sciences Community.

The Energy Academy, supported by a partnership with Progress Energy

Progress Energy Inc

Progress Energy , headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. Progress Energy includes two major electric utilities that serve approximately 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and...

 and TECO, will lead to industry certification for entry positions within the energy industries.

The Anclote High School teams, known as the Sharks participate in Class 3A in football and Class 4A in most other sports.

The Marching Sharks

The Anclote High School Marching Band, known as the Marching Sharks, are currently performing their second show entitled "A Day at the Beach" featuring the songs "I Get Around", "In My Room", and "Fun, Fun, Fun" all by the Beach Boys. The band is led by director Mellisa Wight, Drum Majors are Alex Rodriguez and Stephanie Ruiz. The Marching Sharks recently attended MPA at River Ridge where they received a rating of "Excellent."