Pine View School
magnet school in Florida, United States
Pine View School for the Gifted, or simply known as Pine View School, is a public, college-preparatory, coeducational school located in Osprey, Florida. Pine View serves students from 2nd through 12th grades.
History
In 1969, the school was founded as the state's first school for the intellectually gifted. The first director was John D. Woolever, an educator who had written numerous scholarly articles on education throughout his career. During the school's early history, many feared it would be closed, particularly when the school moved to its current campus, designed by Carl Abbott in 1994. In 2007-2008, the Florida State Legislature considered abolishing the Exceptional Student Educational (ESE) label "gifted." Pine View was included in a statewide comprehensive policy assessment completed by the Florida Legislature's Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability (OPPAGA), which determined that gifted programs were thriving and that the ESE label "gifted" had more advantages than disadvantages.
Steve Largo served as the principal from 1988 to 2013 and led the school to the top of U.S. News and World Reports ranking for the state of Florida on academic achievement year after year. At the end of the 2012–2013 school year, Steve Largo retired and Sarasota County published a decree that February 12 was "Steven Largo Day" in reference to Largo's motivational motto on water boiling point at 212 degree. Dr. Stephen Covert took Largo's place as Pine View principal on July 1, 2013.
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