Yulee had been the site of a high school earlier, which had originally opened in the 1930s. However, in 1965 the Nassau County School Board made the decision to shut down YHS, and students within the Yulee attendance zone began attending Fernandina Beach High School, in nearby Fernandina Beach, Florida. However, with rapid growth in the Yulee area starting in the mid-1990s, new high school was needed and the school board voted to construct an all-new YHS. The initial graduating class of Yulee High School, in 2007, had a 71% graduation rate. 23% of the graduates graduated with honors.
The mascot of the sports teams for YHS is the Hornet.
In February 2009, two Yulee students sued the school for refusing to allow a gay-straight club to form. Hannah Page and Jacob Brock with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in federal court claiming First Amendment rights violations. The school superintendent stated in response, 'a club highlighting sexual orientations will not be permitted as it would violate school board policy.'
On 11 March 2009, a judge ruled that the school must permit the Gay-Straight Alliance club, which meets to discuss discrimination against gay and lesbian students, be allowed the same rights as all other student groups at the school.
On 6 July 2009, the school was designated as a "A" school by the Florida Department of Education, based on student performance on the FCAT. However, by the same date in 2010, the rank had fallen to a "D".
Famous quotes containing the words high and/or school:
“It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent “celibacy,” by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity “backward.””
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Bodily offspring I do not leave, but mental offspring I do. Well, my books do not have to be sent to school and college, and then insist on going into the church, or take to drinking, or marry their mother’s maid.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)