Sebring, Florida Sebring, Florida Sebring Sebring Location in Highlands County and the state of Florida Location in Highlands County and the state of Florida Sebring (/ si br e/ see-bring) is a town/city in Highlands County, Florida, United States, nicknamed "The City on the Circle", in reference to Circle Drive, the center of the Sebring Downtown Historic District. As of the 2010 census the populace was 10,491. It is the governmental center of county of Highlands County, and is the principal town/city of the Sebring Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sebring is the home of the Sebring International Raceway, created on a former airbase, first used in 1950.
It hosted the 1959 Formula One United States Grand Prix, but is presently best known as the host of the 12 Hours of Sebring, an annual Weather - Tech Sports - Car Championship race.
Additionally, the home where novelist Rex Beach committed suicide is positioned on one of Sebring's chief lakes, Lake Jackson.
Sebring was established in 1912.
Sebring, a pottery manufacturer from Ohio who advanced the city.
The village of Sebring, Ohio, is also titled for George E.
Sebring (1859 1927) and his family. It was chartered by the state of Florida in 1913, and was chose as the governmental center of county of Highlands County when the county was created in 1921. Sebring is positioned in northwestern Highlands County at 27 29 44 N 81 26 40 W. According to the Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.0 square miles (41.5 km2), 10.0 square miles (25.8 km2) of which are territory and 6.1 square miles (15.7 km2) of which are water.
The city's geography is dominated by 9,212-acre (37 km2) Lake Jackson, but 420-acre (1.7 km2) Dinner Lake and 137-acre (0.6 km2) Little Lake Jackson are also inside the town/city limits.
Highlands County has more than 84 lakes, most of which are positioned in unincorporated areas of the county.
Sebring lies on the southern end of the Lake Wales Ridge, a chain of ancient islands that is the native surrounding for many rare plants and animals. Most of the region is non-urban and part of the Florida scrub ecosystem, with lesser areas of hammocks and cypress swamps, similar to those found at Highlands Hammock State Park, 4 miles (6 km) west of Sebring. Sebring's climate is a humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classification Cfa), with hot, humid summers and cool, dry winters.
Unlike most places with a similar climate classification, Sebring's rainfall is clearly cyclic, with approximately 57 percent of the total rainfall occurring in the June September summer period.
Climate data for Sebring, Florida According to the 2000 American Community Survey (conducted by the US Enumeration Bureau), 13.8% of all grownups over the age of 25 in Sebring have obtained a bachelor's degree, as compared to a nationwide average of 24.4% of grownups over 25, and 67.6% of Sebring inhabitants over the age of 25 have earned a high school diploma, as compared to the nationwide average of 80.4%. The School Board of Highlands County operates eight enhance schools drawing from the town/city of Sebring with a combined enrollment of approximately 6200 students; one kindergarten center, four elementary schools (Woodlawn Elementary, Fred Wild Elementary, Cracker Trail Elementary, and Sun 'n Lake Elementary, serving students in 1st through 5th grades), two middle schools (Sebring Middle School, and Hill-Gustat Middle School, serving students in 6th through 8th grades), and one high school (Sebring High School). One of the elementary schools (Cracker Trail Elementary) received an "A" undertaking under Florida's A+ school grading plan; two of the elementary schools (Woodlawn and Fred Wild elementaries]])received a "D" grade.
Sebring Middle School received a "B.", based on pupil results on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
Sebring High School, home of the county's sole International Baccalaureate program, received a "B" grade. The county's graduation rate of 62.1% is below the state average of74.5%, and the dropout rate of 14.8% is above the state average of 4.9%. Douglas High School, Home of the Mighty Tigers, was positioned in this town/city for blacks throughout Highlands County.
There are presently two universities in Sebring: one state college, South Florida State College; its chief campus is positioned just north of Sebring in neighboring Avon Park, and a private zone college, Azure College positioned in Sebring.
The Sebring station, served by Amtrak's Silver Meteor and Silver Star trains Sebring has no interstate highways or other limited access roads.
Route 98 in Sebring) is the primary artery providing access to the rest of the state.
State Road 17 begins in Sebring and heads north to its end in Haines City.
State Road 64 (to the north) and State Road 66 (to the south) are meaningful secondary roads.
Several of Sebring's streets are titled after automobile manufacturers or their models, as is evident in Peugeot Street, Ferrari Drive, Porsche Avenue, Vantage Terrace, Corvette Avenue, and Thunderbird Road, to name a several.
Sebring Regional Airport is positioned a several miles southeast of the town/city and provides general aviation facilities for Sebring.
The airport is also the home of the Sebring International Raceway, the host of the 12 Hours of Sebring, second round of TUDOR United Sports - Car Championship automobile race, held annually in March.
The town/city is served by Amtrak from the Sebring station, a depot assembled in 1924 by the Seaboard Air Line and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Amtrak's daily service to Sebring consists of two trains each from the Silver Meteor and Silver Star, heading south to Miami and north to Tampa, Orlando and New York City.
The South Central Florida Express barns joins to the CSX line in Sebring, allowing transit of sugar from Clewiston to the rest of the country.
Sebring is positioned in a fringe viewing region of the Tampa-St.
Sebring is the biggest city in the Sebring radio market, which is ranked as the 288th biggest in the United States by Arbitron. Radio stations transmitting from Sebring include WFHT (1390 - AM), WGSE (95.7 - FM/Religious), WWLL (105.7 - FM/Adult Contemporary), WITS (1340 - AM/Religion ), and WJCM (1050 - AM/ESPN).
The five stations together operate from studios in Sebring on Highway 27 near the town's northern town/city limit.
Local print media include the News-Sun, a journal presented on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, and Highlands Today, a daily small-town supplement to The Tampa Tribune that covers newsworthy affairs in Highlands County.
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School Board of Highlands County.
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