Plantation High School (commonly referred to as PHS) is a high school located in Plantation, Florida. The school serves 2,669 students in grades 9 through 12, and is a part of the Broward County Public Schools district. It was originally located on the Fort Lauderdale airport grounds Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale base, This was used as a temporary location until the new building was ready to open at its present location. Students at Plantation High are called "Colonels". The original school logo was a graphic of a traditional Southern colonel—the equivalent of Colonel Reb, mascot of the University of Mississippi. In the early 1990s, amidst concerns of racial insensitivity, the logo was changed to a large red letter "C," similar to the Chicago Bears logo.
Plantation High has an FCAT school grade of "B" for the 2009-2010 academic year.
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