By Kyle Coppola
Mount Dora High School Achieves 97% Graduation Rate in 2023
Mount Dora High School has a lot to be happy about. The school has achieved a 97% graduation rate in 2023, marking a 2% increase from 2022 and a 5% increase from 2020. This is terrific news for a school that has seen tremendous leadership at the top.
Principal Marlene Straughan continues to impress year after year. “I’m proud to say that Mount Dora High School is officially a ‘B’ school! We are currently the #1 ranked high school in Lake County! This is thanks to the hard work and efforts of our amazing faculty, staff, students, parents, and community stakeholders. I believe it’s also thanks to the belief that we truly are One Team. While there is still work to be done, we have a lot to celebrate and be proud of.
(Principal Marlene Straughan was honored as the Principal of the year for Lake County Schools in 2023.)
Mount Dora High School is over 100 years old, and this is one of the top graduation rates the school has ever had. This equals the 97% graduation rate that the school had in 2021. What is even more impressive is that Mount Dora High School is graduating the highest number of Black/African American students in Lake County at 96.7%. This is a terrific number, and Hispanic/Latino students are also graduating at 96%, just under Lake Minneola’s 98% in that category.
The work going into our Lake County programs continues every day. The right leadership is paving the way for the children of our community. They will be future leaders one day, and it warms our hearts to see such positive numbers coming out of Lake County.
Congratulations to everyone!
Photo Credit – Mount Dora High School
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
