History
Dr. Phillips High School opened in fall of 1987 and was built for approximately 2,500 students in the Doctor Phillips, Florida area of Southwest Orange County, Florida.
The campus is situated on 55 acres (220,000 m2) in the Orlando city limits and unincorporated Orange County.
The school's first Principal, Bill Spoone, went on to be elected to the Orange County School Board. The football stadium is named after him. The school's gymnasium is named after its second Principal, Dr. Larry Payne, and is nicknamed "The House of Payne."
The school opened with enrollment above capacity and began using portable classrooms on the North Campus, formerly known as the 9th Grade Center. Due to overflow from main campus, many non-freshman classes were moved into additional portable classrooms at the 9th Grade Center. Because the students attending classes at the 9th Grade Center were of mixed grade level, the name was changed to North Campus, with the main campus being changed to South Campus. Portable classrooms are still used on the North Campus and are primarily for freshman-level classes.
As of the 2007–2008 school year the student population was 3,624 students. The racial demographics of this population was 41% Caucasian, 28% African American, 22% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 1% were multiracial.
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