The Seven Oaks community escaped being rezoned for different middle and high schools in 2016, but it doesn’t appear it will do so this time around. Pasco County Schools staff is recommending that the entirety of Seven Oaks be rezoned to attend the new Cypress Creek Middle School, as well Cypress Creek High School, according to new school year 2020-21 maps posted on its … [Read more...]
Browning Hoping For Smoother Rezoning Process This Fall
Chris Williams (standing) looks over maps during a School Boundary Committee meetings in 2016 at Wesley Chapel High. There will be no such committees in 2019; Williams and his staff are in the process of drawing up new boundaries and will answer questions and concerns on Oct. 7 at Wiregrass Ranch High. With Cypress Creek Middle School scheduled to open separately from the … [Read more...]
THE BEST
Tirso "Junior" Cintron The first truck pulled up to Wharton High in 1997, and head custodian Tirso “Junior” Cintron was waiting. He pulled the first chair off the truck. The first desk. “The first everything,” says Carmen Aguero, one of the first teachers at the school. Junior set the desks and chairs up in the classrooms and offices. He made sure the … [Read more...]
Hey Everyone, Welcome Back To School…Feeling Cooler?
Workers were putting the finishing touches on the improved A/C system at local high schools right up to today's first day. You may or may not have felt a pinch so far this year, with the new ½-cent sales tax increase to support Hillsborough County’s public schools, but the Hillsborough County School District certainly has felt the benefit. As of July 22, the district … [Read more...]
Benito & Liberty Middle Schools Will Have Crossing Guards For 2019-20
Parents at Benito Middle School gathered last school year to remind drivers to slow down in the mornings when driving by the school, but will have crossing guards to do so this year. Parents have long complained that despite traffic lights and clearly marked walkways, children attending Benito Middle School faced very real dangers having to cross busy Cross Creek Blvd. … [Read more...]
