70-year-old Clearwater High School gets a $59 million face-lift

Clearwater High School in Pinellas County has recently finished undergoing a massive reconstruction that included the demolition of 17 existing buildings, mostly while class was in session.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. November 27, 2023
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Clearwater High School, which was first built in 1954, has been completely reconstructed.
Clearwater High School, which was first built in 1954, has been completely reconstructed.
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About 1,000 former students gathered at Clearwater High School on a February Saturday in 2020.

The students, some who’d graduated as far back as the 1950s, packed the school’s auditorium. This was Feb. 22, about three weeks before the world would shut down and the term social distancing would enter the lexicon.

 

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