Lake Brantley High School
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Lake Brantley High School (LBHS) is located in Altamonte Springs, Florida
, an urban community approximately 13 miles (20 km) north of Orlando, Florida
, USA. It is a public high school serving grade levels 9-12 in Seminole County, FL, operated by Seminole County Public Schools
. The school, which opened in 1972, ranked 79th on Newsweek
magazine's 2005 list of the top 100 high schools in the United States
and 424th in the 2009 Newsweek list.
, a middle school
and a high school
all be built adjacent to each other in an "educational plaza" on Sand Lake Road, just west of Forest City Road. (In 1977, Angel recalled that the bond issue had passed so easily that he immediately wished that he had asked for twice as much). All three schools (and several others in the next few years) were designed by architect Eoghan Kelley, a somewhat controversial figure in Central Florida in his day.
Kelley's designs were based in part on a trend of the early 1970s called the Open School Concept. The outer school building was composed of large, simple geometric shapes with no windows, and the interior of each module was so laid out that it had few permanent walls; instead, movable walls abounded and very few of the classrooms had any doors. This was supposedly done to facilitate free movement between the rooms and other resources (such as the libraries) in each module. As the first few years were to make clear, the "no-doors" concept proved a failure, with teachers complaining constantly about noise from other rooms and halls. Eventually all the gaps were boarded up and each classroom got a door.
Kelley also stated that he had designed each school to be a fallout shelter
if ever needed. (There was controversy as to whether these buildings were stout enough to play such a role, no exterior windows notwithstanding. They contained no steel reinforcement in the outer cinder-block walls, and engineers doubt that they could have withstood a hurricane stronger than Category 2 or even a tornado, let alone a nuclear weapon). Kelley was awarded the contract to design the Educational Plaza schools and several others in Seminole County, as well as other schools in Florida, primarily in Pasco County.
The first school, Forest City Elementary, was completed in 1971 and its first principal was Mr. Arnold C. Otto. (This area was originally part of the incorporated (in 1972) municipality of Forest City, however, within the decade it was absorbed into the city of Altamonte Springs. Brantley's early yearbooks refer to the school being in "Forest City, Florida," a ghost of former times). Teague Middle School was completed in 1972 and John Angel, by then retired from the school board, became its first principal. Lake Brantley High School was actually opened in 1973 and its first principal was Mr. William ("Bill") Daugherty.
Bill Daugherty first proposed the plans for Lake Brantley to the school board in 1971, and, because construction of the new building was not complete, classes were started in September 1972 on the old Lyman High School campus. (This old campus is now the site of R. T. Milwee Middle School; the new (1970) and present site of Lyman High is a mile to the north). The new building (LBHS Version 1.1) of about 141000 square feet (13,099.3 m²) was finally completed in February 1973, and Lake Brantley's 900 students moved across town and started classes on February 15. The new building was officially dedicated on Monday, May 13, 1973.
LBHS' first official year in the new building began on September 4, 1973, with 1,100 students in two grades, 9 and 10. One grade was added in each of the next two years and LBHS' first graduating class matriculated on June 8, 1975. Because enrollment was growing so quickly, a New Addition to the original building was completed in the summer of 1975, at a cost of $3,500,000 - which was the entire cost of the original building, some five times larger than the addition. (Rampant inflation overtook John Angel's original budget, and the original school was built for only $17 a square foot. This was to come back to haunt the school board in later years). The open-air commons was roofed over during this time as well, and the new size of LBHS (Version 1.2) was 220000 square feet (20,438.7 m²) of enclosed building. The stadium, Tom Storey Field, was finished and dedicated in November 1974, and its final improved cost (including the concrete bleachers structure and a scoreboard) was $70,000. A final addition was made to the original school in 1989, and LBHS' final size (Version 1.3) was about 270000 square feet (25,083.8 m²).
Within just six years of the opening day, serious flaws in construction and material quality began to appear in the school building, and severe roof leaks appeared in many different places. Two major repair and refurbishing projects were undertaken in 1980 and 1985, but eventually, the school board had had enough, and plans were unveiled in 1996 to demolish the school and rebuild it from the ground up. By 1979, Seminole County had given up on Eoghan Kelley and by 1996, five of the fifteen schools he designed in Seminole County were demolished; the other ten were gutted and re-modeled. Even so, the exteriors of these elementary schools - Altamonte, Forest City, Lake Orienta, Sabal Point and Winter Springs, and a private school (Forest Lake Academy) clearly show their Kelley School design. Only a couple fragments remain of the others: the gymnasium of Lake Howell High School, and a partial addition to the original Teague Middle School. His other Florida schools in the counties of Alachua, Columbia, Flagler, Pasco, Sarasota and Volusia are still standing.
The new school design was thoroughly traditional, consisting of many different buildings instead of the old monolithic structure. The projected cost was $39 million, which wound up being $42 million even after some proposed items were omitted - quite a lot more than the $7.1 million cost of the first school. Construction of the present LBHS began in 1998, and demolition of the original building began the day after classes ended in May 1999. Demolition was complete by August, and the new school buildings (LBHS Version 2.0) opened for business the same month - not totally finished. Of all the structures on campus today, only the stadium is original. All of the east wall and about a third of the north wall of the original 700-module (which held Band, Chorus, Dance and part of the gymnasium concessionary) were left intact and re-used as the outer walls adjacent to the auditorium and the cafeteria. They are now the only remaining fragments of the original school.
LBHS' second principal was Richard Barnett, who served for 18 months before being forced to resign in January 1977 amid rumors of severe misconduct. The school board appointed Assistant Principal Boothe to serve in his stead, and this temporary appointment was made permanent on April 1, 1977. Alvin Darvin Boothe became Lake Brantley's third principal, a job he was to hold for the next 29 years. He presided over his first commencement on Saturday, June 11, 1977.
Mr. Boothe worked tirelessly to improve the school, and together with the support of his faculty, LBHS' academic standing was raised to one of the Nation's Top 100 schools. He resigned as principal in March 2006 at the age of 58, after nearly 38 years of service to Seminole County. Mr. Boothe still serves the county as a liaison between the public schools and the state government in Tallahassee. Mr. Boothe started his Seminole County years as a teacher and a coach at Seminole High School in Sanford (where he worked for Don Reynolds), and came to LBHS as an assistant principal.
Of all the people that ever worked at Lake Brantley, very few served as long or longer. Until 2005, there was only one other person who had served as long: Regina Klaers, who started as a mathematics teacher and left after 33 years to serve as curriculum director for the district. A second-year person, Dannie Roberts, a guidance counselor, retired in 2010 after serving 37 years. Right behind him were three other people from Brantley's third year - Bill Dempsey, a social studies teacher who retired in 2010 after 36 years, and Shirley Bridgman Nieto, a science teacher who retired in 2010 after 35 years. Currently, Sally Mc Call, a guidance counselor who came in August 1974, is "Queen of the Hill" with 37 years of service. One second-year person (1973) has actually returned - Darla Ann Mengel Lanier, a business teacher who moved to Seminole High School in Sanford for a number of years. (Had she not left, she would be Queen.) There are no other faculty members remaining from Brantley's first three years.
Don Reynolds left Brantley to serve as Principal first at Lyman HS and then at Lake Mary HS. In his final years, he served as curriculum executive with the School Board until his retirement. Richard Barnett opened a used book store in downtown Sanford for a number of years, and in the late 1980s he returned to Massachusetts. Cindy Crain became a vice-principal of Brantley in the early 1980s and served as such until her retirement. Mr. Boothe's replacement is Mary Williams, who along with her husband Richard and her three sons are all alumni of LBHS. She graduated from Lake Brantley in 1980 and joined the faculty in 1983 as a mathematics teacher and later became an assistant principal. She now serves as the fourth principal of Lake Brantley High School.
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It was written by Mr. Ken Bovio, a former music teacher and also one of Brantley's first assistant principals. He left in June 1974 to be principal of an elementary school. For reasons unclear, this Alma Mater fell from favor and it ceased to be used. The original Alma Mater plaque, made in 1972 and hung from the east wall of the gymnasium, was not saved and it was destroyed in July 1999 when the gymnasium was demolished. In addition, the original builders' dedication plaques from 1973 and 1975 (in lieu of cornerstones) which were on the north wall of the school foyer also vanished during the demolition. Plaques similar to these in style can still be found at Forest City Elementary. As to why LBHS was called "school of the future," it was not due to any change in teaching methods from any other Seminole County schools of the time, but only due to the (perceived) "futuristic" appearance of the Eoghan Kelley schools. This appellation was most probably the temporary whimsy of Bill Daugherty.
Jerri Kelly serves as the current Athletic Director. Cathy Duncan is the current Athletic Secretary.
More information on the Lake Brantley High School athletics department can be found on their page.
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Altamonte Springs is a city in Seminole county in the U.S. state of Florida, which had a population of 41,496 at the 2010 census. Located primarily in Seminole County, the city is in the northern suburbs of the Orlando–Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area, which the United States...
, an urban community approximately 13 miles (20 km) north of Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
, USA. It is a public high school serving grade levels 9-12 in Seminole County, FL, operated by Seminole County Public Schools
Seminole County Public Schools
Seminole County Public Schools is a public school district that covers Seminole County, Florida. As of September, 2006, the total district wide enrollment was 66,351 students in 2006.- School Board :...
. The school, which opened in 1972, ranked 79th on Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
magazine's 2005 list of the top 100 high schools in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and 424th in the 2009 Newsweek list.
History
In 1969 the School Board of Seminole County, Florida determined that because of projected population growth, three new schools would need to be built in the southern part of the county. School Board Chairman proposed a $10 million bond issue to fund these schools, and the issue was handily approved by the voters. The plan was that an elementary schoolElementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
, a middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
and a high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
all be built adjacent to each other in an "educational plaza" on Sand Lake Road, just west of Forest City Road. (In 1977, Angel recalled that the bond issue had passed so easily that he immediately wished that he had asked for twice as much). All three schools (and several others in the next few years) were designed by architect Eoghan Kelley, a somewhat controversial figure in Central Florida in his day.
Kelley's designs were based in part on a trend of the early 1970s called the Open School Concept. The outer school building was composed of large, simple geometric shapes with no windows, and the interior of each module was so laid out that it had few permanent walls; instead, movable walls abounded and very few of the classrooms had any doors. This was supposedly done to facilitate free movement between the rooms and other resources (such as the libraries) in each module. As the first few years were to make clear, the "no-doors" concept proved a failure, with teachers complaining constantly about noise from other rooms and halls. Eventually all the gaps were boarded up and each classroom got a door.
Kelley also stated that he had designed each school to be a fallout shelter
Fallout shelter
A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War....
if ever needed. (There was controversy as to whether these buildings were stout enough to play such a role, no exterior windows notwithstanding. They contained no steel reinforcement in the outer cinder-block walls, and engineers doubt that they could have withstood a hurricane stronger than Category 2 or even a tornado, let alone a nuclear weapon). Kelley was awarded the contract to design the Educational Plaza schools and several others in Seminole County, as well as other schools in Florida, primarily in Pasco County.
The first school, Forest City Elementary, was completed in 1971 and its first principal was Mr. Arnold C. Otto. (This area was originally part of the incorporated (in 1972) municipality of Forest City, however, within the decade it was absorbed into the city of Altamonte Springs. Brantley's early yearbooks refer to the school being in "Forest City, Florida," a ghost of former times). Teague Middle School was completed in 1972 and John Angel, by then retired from the school board, became its first principal. Lake Brantley High School was actually opened in 1973 and its first principal was Mr. William ("Bill") Daugherty.
Bill Daugherty first proposed the plans for Lake Brantley to the school board in 1971, and, because construction of the new building was not complete, classes were started in September 1972 on the old Lyman High School campus. (This old campus is now the site of R. T. Milwee Middle School; the new (1970) and present site of Lyman High is a mile to the north). The new building (LBHS Version 1.1) of about 141000 square feet (13,099.3 m²) was finally completed in February 1973, and Lake Brantley's 900 students moved across town and started classes on February 15. The new building was officially dedicated on Monday, May 13, 1973.
LBHS' first official year in the new building began on September 4, 1973, with 1,100 students in two grades, 9 and 10. One grade was added in each of the next two years and LBHS' first graduating class matriculated on June 8, 1975. Because enrollment was growing so quickly, a New Addition to the original building was completed in the summer of 1975, at a cost of $3,500,000 - which was the entire cost of the original building, some five times larger than the addition. (Rampant inflation overtook John Angel's original budget, and the original school was built for only $17 a square foot. This was to come back to haunt the school board in later years). The open-air commons was roofed over during this time as well, and the new size of LBHS (Version 1.2) was 220000 square feet (20,438.7 m²) of enclosed building. The stadium, Tom Storey Field, was finished and dedicated in November 1974, and its final improved cost (including the concrete bleachers structure and a scoreboard) was $70,000. A final addition was made to the original school in 1989, and LBHS' final size (Version 1.3) was about 270000 square feet (25,083.8 m²).
Within just six years of the opening day, serious flaws in construction and material quality began to appear in the school building, and severe roof leaks appeared in many different places. Two major repair and refurbishing projects were undertaken in 1980 and 1985, but eventually, the school board had had enough, and plans were unveiled in 1996 to demolish the school and rebuild it from the ground up. By 1979, Seminole County had given up on Eoghan Kelley and by 1996, five of the fifteen schools he designed in Seminole County were demolished; the other ten were gutted and re-modeled. Even so, the exteriors of these elementary schools - Altamonte, Forest City, Lake Orienta, Sabal Point and Winter Springs, and a private school (Forest Lake Academy) clearly show their Kelley School design. Only a couple fragments remain of the others: the gymnasium of Lake Howell High School, and a partial addition to the original Teague Middle School. His other Florida schools in the counties of Alachua, Columbia, Flagler, Pasco, Sarasota and Volusia are still standing.
The new school design was thoroughly traditional, consisting of many different buildings instead of the old monolithic structure. The projected cost was $39 million, which wound up being $42 million even after some proposed items were omitted - quite a lot more than the $7.1 million cost of the first school. Construction of the present LBHS began in 1998, and demolition of the original building began the day after classes ended in May 1999. Demolition was complete by August, and the new school buildings (LBHS Version 2.0) opened for business the same month - not totally finished. Of all the structures on campus today, only the stadium is original. All of the east wall and about a third of the north wall of the original 700-module (which held Band, Chorus, Dance and part of the gymnasium concessionary) were left intact and re-used as the outer walls adjacent to the auditorium and the cafeteria. They are now the only remaining fragments of the original school.
Principals
The first principal of LBHS was Bill W. Daugherty, who assumed office in March 1972. His assistant principals were Don T. Reynolds and A. Darvin Boothe, and his Dean was James Mc Manus. Up until this time, LBHS had had only one Dean for all of the students, but starting in November 1974, separate Deans for boys and girls were put in place. James Mc Manus became a counselor, and the first Dean of Boys was Bill Duty (a coach) and the first Dean of Girls was Cindy Crain (a Humanities teacher from Seminole High School).LBHS' second principal was Richard Barnett, who served for 18 months before being forced to resign in January 1977 amid rumors of severe misconduct. The school board appointed Assistant Principal Boothe to serve in his stead, and this temporary appointment was made permanent on April 1, 1977. Alvin Darvin Boothe became Lake Brantley's third principal, a job he was to hold for the next 29 years. He presided over his first commencement on Saturday, June 11, 1977.
Mr. Boothe worked tirelessly to improve the school, and together with the support of his faculty, LBHS' academic standing was raised to one of the Nation's Top 100 schools. He resigned as principal in March 2006 at the age of 58, after nearly 38 years of service to Seminole County. Mr. Boothe still serves the county as a liaison between the public schools and the state government in Tallahassee. Mr. Boothe started his Seminole County years as a teacher and a coach at Seminole High School in Sanford (where he worked for Don Reynolds), and came to LBHS as an assistant principal.
Of all the people that ever worked at Lake Brantley, very few served as long or longer. Until 2005, there was only one other person who had served as long: Regina Klaers, who started as a mathematics teacher and left after 33 years to serve as curriculum director for the district. A second-year person, Dannie Roberts, a guidance counselor, retired in 2010 after serving 37 years. Right behind him were three other people from Brantley's third year - Bill Dempsey, a social studies teacher who retired in 2010 after 36 years, and Shirley Bridgman Nieto, a science teacher who retired in 2010 after 35 years. Currently, Sally Mc Call, a guidance counselor who came in August 1974, is "Queen of the Hill" with 37 years of service. One second-year person (1973) has actually returned - Darla Ann Mengel Lanier, a business teacher who moved to Seminole High School in Sanford for a number of years. (Had she not left, she would be Queen.) There are no other faculty members remaining from Brantley's first three years.
Don Reynolds left Brantley to serve as Principal first at Lyman HS and then at Lake Mary HS. In his final years, he served as curriculum executive with the School Board until his retirement. Richard Barnett opened a used book store in downtown Sanford for a number of years, and in the late 1980s he returned to Massachusetts. Cindy Crain became a vice-principal of Brantley in the early 1980s and served as such until her retirement. Mr. Boothe's replacement is Mary Williams, who along with her husband Richard and her three sons are all alumni of LBHS. She graduated from Lake Brantley in 1980 and joined the faculty in 1983 as a mathematics teacher and later became an assistant principal. She now serves as the fourth principal of Lake Brantley High School.
Mottoes
The first motto of LBHS was School of the Future. This was changed to Patriots Meet The Challenge. Today's motto is Patriots Make The Difference.Alma Mater
The original Alma MaterAlma mater
Alma mater , pronounced ), was used in ancient Rome as a title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele, and in Christianity for the Virgin Mary.-General term:...
:
- School of the Future, Lake Brantley High
- We are proud to sing your praise
- We gather knowledge through the years
- In all of the modern ways
- Lake Brantley High School leads the way
- Lake Brantley High School here we'll stay
- To try our best to learn the most
- and be the finest from coast to coast
It was written by Mr. Ken Bovio, a former music teacher and also one of Brantley's first assistant principals. He left in June 1974 to be principal of an elementary school. For reasons unclear, this Alma Mater fell from favor and it ceased to be used. The original Alma Mater plaque, made in 1972 and hung from the east wall of the gymnasium, was not saved and it was destroyed in July 1999 when the gymnasium was demolished. In addition, the original builders' dedication plaques from 1973 and 1975 (in lieu of cornerstones) which were on the north wall of the school foyer also vanished during the demolition. Plaques similar to these in style can still be found at Forest City Elementary. As to why LBHS was called "school of the future," it was not due to any change in teaching methods from any other Seminole County schools of the time, but only due to the (perceived) "futuristic" appearance of the Eoghan Kelley schools. This appellation was most probably the temporary whimsy of Bill Daugherty.
Mascot
When it came time to choose a school mascot, the Patriot won out by one vote over the bass.Academics
- Offers 27 AP courses in a wide variety of academic subjects as well as in elective interests
- 45.5% of AP tests were passed in 2006
- Received an "A" rating from the Florida Department of Education in 2006
- Had 7 National Merit Scholar finalists in the class of 2006 and had 2 in 2007
- Performed significantly better than the average Florida school average and national school average in SAT and ACT test scores
- Highest ACT and SATSATThe SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...
scores within the district for 2002 and significantly higher than the state average - Over 1600 Advanced Placement tests administered in 2003
- 821 students scored 3 or higher on the 2003 AP tests
- In the class of 2005, there were 4 National Merit Finalists
Athletics
Lake Brantley has many different sports teams. The Fall Sports include Football (Freshman, Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams), Cross Country, Bowling, Golf, Slow Pitch Softball, Swimming, Track and Girls Volleyball. Winter Sports include Girls and Boys Basketball, Girls and Boys Soccer, Wrestling and Girls Weightlifting. Spring Sports include Girls and Boys Lacrosse, Girls and Boys Tennis, Baseball, Fast Pitch Softball, Boys Weightlifting, Water-Polo and Boys Volleyball. Their non-competitive all girl Cheer-leading squads are year round, however a separate competitive team competes in the winter/early spring.Jerri Kelly serves as the current Athletic Director. Cathy Duncan is the current Athletic Secretary.
More information on the Lake Brantley High School athletics department can be found on their page.
Other Information
- Lake Brantley's auditorium was home to the Don Baker Memorial Mighty WurlitzerWurlitzerThe Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, was an American company that produced stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes....
Theatre organTheatre organA theatre organ is a pipe organ originally designed specifically for imitation of an orchestra. New designs have tended to be around some of the sounds and blends unique to the instrument itself.... - The Lake Brantley High School Band is the largest in the state of Florida, consisting of over 350 students
- Lake Brantley is one of 6 schools in the state of Florida to be a part of the German American Partnership Program (GAPP)
- Lake Brantley boasts the best Seminole County teacher in terms of AP Pass rate in Vita Simmons, who lives with her loving husband Jeremiah in Winter Park, FL.
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