Oviedo High School

Oviedo High School is a grade 9-12 public secondary school set on a 52acre campus in Oviedo, Florida, a community situated in southeastern Seminole County operated by Seminole County Public Schools. The “Oviedo School” was established in 1932 as a comprehensive K-through-12 educational facility; members of the first graduating class received their diplomas in 1935. The secondary grades separated from the elementary in 1948, and the upper level, which moved to the current site in 1969, became Oviedo High School, now one of the oldest schools in Central Florida. The school recently underwent a $50 million renovation project. The school newspaper is the "Lion's Tale", an award-winning paper recognized by the National Scholastic Press Association, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and the Florida Scholastic Press Association.DemographicsIn the past few decades, the city of Oviedo and its surrounding area, which together constitute the Oviedo High School attendance zone, has changed from a primarily agrarian support community of 3,074 Oviedians during the 1980 census to a predominantly suburban city of 33,342 residents by the 2010 census. Oviedo H.S. students are drawn from the cities of Oviedo and Winter Springs as well as from suburban residential neighborhoods of unincorporated Seminole County.Prior to the 2005 opening of Hagerty High School, Oviedo High School was the sole Seminole County public high school serving Oviedo and nearby unincorporated communities such as Chuluota and Geneva. Hagerty's freshman class of 2005-2006 became the first graduating class from the new school upon the conclusion of the 2008-09 school year. In an effort to boost attendance, Oviedo High School allowed open enrollment for students in other Seminole County schools starting with the 2009-2010 school year.