Type Public Principal Arthur Martinez Grades 9-12 Phone +1 863-499-2900 Number of students 2,033 | Established 1927 Faculty 125 Enrollment 2,033 Founded 1889 Motto Nulli Secundus | |
Address 726 Hollingsworth Rd, Lakeland, FL 33801, USA | ||
Lakeland Senior High School is the oldest public high school in Lakeland, Florida, United States. It is part of The Polk County Public Schools. Lakeland Senior High School was the original high school in the city. It also shares its campus with Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. Harrison students attend academic classes at Lakeland Senior High School. In 2001 Lakeland Senior High underwent a massive renovation.
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Athletics
The school's athletics teams are known as the Lakeland Dreadnaughts.
Football
Lakeland's football team has won 6 state championships in 1986, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
They won the High School Football National Championship in 2005 and 2006.
The Dreadnaughts have played their home football games at Thomas W. Bryant Stadium since 1941. They won their inaugural game at the stadium on September 26, 1941, 33-0 over the Florida Military Academy.
Band
The Lakeland Senior High School Band was founded in 1924. In 1987, the wind ensemble earned the John Philip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Flag of Honor. In 1994, the symphony band also received this award. This makes Lakeland High the first school to receive the award twice.
Old Lakeland High School
The Old Lakeland High School is located at 400 North Florida Avenue in Lakeland and in 1993 was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Over the years the building has housed several different schools including the Lakeland Junior High School, Polk Opportunity Center and Lakeland Middle Academy renamed the Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in 1999.