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Paul J. Hagerty High School

high school in Oviedo, Seminole County, Florida

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7151491
Source-derived summary

Hagerty High School is a public secondary school in Oviedo, Florida, United States. It is part of Seminole County Public Schools. It is the academic and athletic rival school of Oviedo High School. In 2015, Hagerty High School was ranked 1st of 18 high schools in the Seminole County Public Schools by U.S. News & World Report.

History

In 2000, the site of Hagerty High School was Lawton Chiles Middle School. In the fall of 2004, the school moved to its current location at Sanctuary Drive, and construction started on Hagerty, and the school opened a year later in 2005, to help the influx of students at Oviedo High School.

Extracurricular activities

Hagerty High School has athletic programs in lacrosse, volleyball, tennis, swimming, golf, football, cheerleading, cross country, bowling, weightlifting, track and field, basketball, water polo, soccer, softball, wrestling, robotics and baseball. Hagerty is in the Seminole Athletic Conference.

Demographics

2,419 students attend HHS. The student body is 64.4% White, 20.3% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5.9% Black, 2.6% multi-racial, 0.6% Pacific Islander, and 0.2% Native American. 51% are female, and 49% are male.

Editorial summary

“Paul J. Hagerty High School” enters the record as high school in Oviedo, Seminole County, Florida. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paul, Hagerty and High can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2000, 2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paul, Hagerty and High.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Paul J. Hagerty High School” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paul, Hagerty and High provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7151491. Authority coordinates are 28.625, -81.178. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2000, 2004 and 2005.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Paul J. Hagerty High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.