| Daytona Public School was established in 1872 in a little log house and moved numerous times before finally settling into a framed one-room schoolhouse on Palmetto Avenue in 1874. Students of all grades studied together. |
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| Daytona Public School was established in 1872 in a little log house and moved numerous times before finally settling into a framed one-room schoolhouse on Palmetto Avenue in 1874. Students of all grades studied together. |
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| As the population continued to grow Daytona built a new and larger frame school on Third Avenue in 1885. Daytona Public School was chartered for secondary education for the 1901-02 school year and Daytona High School was officially born. |
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In 1910 the first permanent brick school was completed facing on Bay Street and Daytona High School occupied the west end of the upper floor. Accreditation by the Southern Commission on Accredited Schools (now SACS) was earned in 1914 and the addition of two new elementary schools in 1916 allowed the downtown facility to serve only Junior and Senior High. By 1926 the rapid growth of the Daytona area required that a modern heavy masonry High School be built on the original Third Avenue site to provide the proper learning environment for higher education and to relieve the crowding of the middle grades in the Bay St. facility. Daytona High School now existed as a stand-alone entity. |
| Changing political boundaries of the Halifax Area saw the incorporation of the former town of Seabreeze into greater Daytona. With two high schools now in the same city, Daytona High School became Daytona Mainland High School in 1946 because it was on the mainland side of the Halifax River. A year later the name was simplified to Mainland High School and we still carry that proud name today. |
| Overcrowding again necessitated a new school in the early 1960’s and in 1962 another Mainland High School began operations on Clyde Morris Blvd., thereby allowing the downtown campuses to be merged into a larger Mainland Junior High School. That facility eventually became the Mainland 7th Grade Center before being sold to make way for the new Justice Center. |
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If you observed the growth trends above, you noticed that the first school was outgrown in 24 years and the next only 17 years later. Then a new and spacious design carried us for the next 36 years. Although we had several decades of phenomenal growth in Daytona Beach we managed to continue at the Clyde Morris campus for another 40 years because of the additions of Spruce Creek High School and Atlantic High School in the Greater Daytona Area. With over 2100 students enrolled in a school originally designed for half that many we were very grateful that yet another new Mainland was on the way. |
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