Bartow High School

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Bartow Senior High School
Kathleen High School
National rankingUnranked (2013 Newsweek)
YearbookEcho
Feeder schoolsBartow Middle School, Union Academy

Bartow Senior High School is the only

desegregation
.

History

Summerlin Institute was founded in 1887 as the first public high school in Bartow, Florida. It was named after

Jacob Summerlin who donated large amounts of land to the cities of Bartow and Orlando. This school was the first brick school in the United States located south of Jacksonville, Florida
. It was also the only public military school in Florida.

Union Academy dates to 1897 when it opened as an elementary school for African Americans. In 1923, a secondary school curriculum was added and Union Academy became a high school for African-Americans.[2]

Summerlin Institute was relocated to the corner of Broadway Avenue and Tharp Street, the current location of Bartow High School, in 1927.

In 1968

merger" of two schools. Others consider Summerlin Institute/Bartow High School one school, and Union Academy a now defunct high school, but current middle school.[citation needed
]

In 1996, Bartow High School earned approval from the IBO to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma program. The students pursuing this program are placed in the International Baccalaureate School, a school-within-a-school on the Bartow High campus. While IB students attend many IB specific classes they take regular Bartow High School electives and participate in the Bartow High School athletic program. Beginning with the Class of 2010, it was only composed of students from western Polk County, due to the opening of a second IB school at Haines City High School for students from eastern Polk County. There is no longer a principal for IB Bartow but the current head of schools is Mandy Craven.

In 2006, the Summerlin Academy was established as a military school originally located under the same roof as Bartow High School and International Baccalaureate School. In 2008, Summerlin moved to its own facility in Bartow.

In September 2021, a 15-year-old student was arrested after participating in the devious lick trend for damaging and stealing soap dispenses at Bartow.[3]

Athletics

The school's nickname is the

Yellow Jackets, although the school colors and uniforms are blue and orange (a result of the merge between Summerlin Institute and Union Academy; Summerlin's colors were orange and white and Union's colors were blue and white).[citation needed
]

Over the last forty years, the school has won team and individual state championships in football, boys basketball, swimming, boys weightlifting and girls softball.[citation needed]

The girls' softball team is the only school to have appeared in a

FHSAA state championship game for 10 consecutive years (1997–2006), winning 7 of those matches. Two Bartow pitchers became the first and second players in FHSAA softball history to pitch in four state championship games. Melissa Parsons pitched from 1997 to 2000, winning the '97 and '00 titles. Lindsay Littlejohn won four state title games from 2002 to 2005. Bartow also became the first team to win five consecutive state softball championships (2002–2006). In 2003, the program earned a No. 1 national ranking by the USA Today Coaches' Poll.[citation needed
]

Notable alumni

Bartow High School

Summerlin Institute

Union Academy

References

  1. ^ a b c "BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  2. ^ "History of Union Academy". Union Academy. Feb 8, 2014.
  3. ^ "15-year-old student's arrest linked to banned TikTok challenge after police locate video of crime". Fox News. 17 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Tony Bradley called up to the Utah Jazz". 2 November 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Walter Clayton Jr. - Men's Basketball". Florida Gators.
  6. ^ a b c d "Backroom Briefing: Polk County Power". 11 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Marcus Floyd's Bio". burkettchapplepbc.org. Burkett Chapple Primitive Baptist Church, Inc. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Jersey Retirement". George A. Smathers Libraries. The Polk County Democrat. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  9. ^ "ANDREWS, Charles Oscar". congress.gov. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  10. ^ "CLARK, Frank, (1860 - 1936)". U.S. Congress. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  11. ^ "Polk County Hall of Fame". Polk County School Board. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  12. ^ a b c d e f "Ex-Union Coach McKennie Had 'The Pros'". Tampa Tribune. October 25, 1971. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  13. ^ Della Costa, Annamaria (July 30, 2006). "Union Academy's Pro Football Players Reunite". Lakeland Ledger. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Finalists Picked for Rattler Awards". Tampa Tribune. January 19, 1975. Retrieved 3 May 2019.

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