Strawberry Crest High School is a public high school in East

Hillsborough County, Florida Hillsborough County is located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. In the 2020 census, the population was 1,459,762, making it the fourth-most populous county in Florida and the most populous county outside the Miami metrop ...

. It opened on August 25, 2009 with students from

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, Durant High School and Plant City High School. It was built to relieve the over-population of the students in these high schools. Along with

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, it is the most recently constructed high school in Hillsborough County. Strawberry Crest is the 4th high school in Hillsborough County to be certified as an International Baccalaureate high school. A number of the instructors for the IB courses come from the International Baccalaureate Program at the older

C. Leon King High School C. Leon King High School is a Tampa, Florida public high school named in honor of C. Leon King, a member of the Hillsborough County Board of Public Instruction for 18 years. It opened in 1960 with 58 faculty members and 960 students. It is locate ...

, in

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. Christie Raburn, former Assistant Principal for Curriculum, is the current principal. Former principal, David Brown, left the school in 2019 to move to the district's newest high school in 10 years. The school is located at the intersection of Gallagher Road and 92 in Dover, Florida, on land that was once the family farm of longtime school board member Joe E. Newsome. although dressed in the school colors which are red, black, and silver. The school was named Strawberry Crest in order to honor the strawberry growers of the region. Strawberrry Crest is one of only three high schools whose students are eligible to become queen of the Florida Strawberry Festival, along with

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, Plant City, and Hillsborough Community College."News of Opening - Times"

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