Blake High School
| Blake High School | |
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| Location | Tampa, Florida |
| State |  Florida
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| Map | Coordinates: 27°57′30″N 82°28′01″W / 27.95843°N 82.46694°W |
| Information | |
| Captains | Yes, 2 Teacher, 1 Student |
Howard W. Blake is a public magnet High School of the visual and preforming arts, located in the district of Hillsborough county Tampa, Florida. Blake brings 2 teams to competition; Blake Gears, and Blake Bolts. The teams are co-run by PHD Clayton Nylund and Karina Bhutta.
School History
Don Thompson Vocational High School was opened in 1956 as a segregated school for African-Americans, but was later renamed Howard W. Blake Comprehensive High School in honor of Howard Wesley Blake, an African-American Educator and educational activist from Tampa, Florida.
The original building was closed in the 1970-1971 school year as Hillsborough County public schools desegregated. The following year it reopened as Blake 7th grade center, a single grade-level integrated school. By the early 1990's the school was renamed Blake Junior High and taught grade-levels 7th through 9th. The School was closed in 1996, and the original building demolished.
In the fall of 1997 the name of Howard W. Blake was transferred to a newly built High School, and opened as a magnet school for the visual, communication, and preforming arts teaching grade-levels 9th through 12th.