Ida S. Baker High School is a public high school located in Cape Coral, Florida. The school was founded in 2004, and is one of six high schools located in Cape Coral. For the 2011–12 school year it was rated as an "A+" school in the State of Florida.

History

Ida Baker founding principal of Cape Coral High School and Lee County's first black female high school principal. Cape Coral's Ida Baker High School was renamed in her honor. Ida Baker worked in the Lee County school system as a teacher and administrator. She became Cape Coral High School's first principal in 1977 and became an administrator at the Florida Department of Education in 1986. After her death in 1992, educators created a statewide award for excellence in her honor: The Ida S. Baker Distinguished Minority Educator Award.

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ART BUILDING BUSINESS, FINANCE, AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNALISM CRIMINAL JUSTICE "DRAMA" DRIVER'S EDUCATION ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING SPANISH/LANGUAGE ARTS FIREFIGHTING FOREIGN LANGUAGE WELLNESS INTENSIVE READING MATHEMATICS MEDICAL MUSIC PE ROTC-MILITARY SCIENCE SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHING