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".
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“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”
—André Breton (1896–1966)
“Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And every where that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go;
He followed her to school one day—
That was against the rule,
It made the children laugh and play,
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—Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879)