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Booker High School is located on the north end of Sarasota County, and the new $58 million campus was opened in the winter of 2013. We also boast a 22 million dollar renovated theatre with two performance spaces, a brand new turf football field and renovated track. Construction has also started on our brand new field house for our football team. The new campus is replete with state-of-the-art classrooms and studios, technology and science labs, and we are in the process . 

In addition to the students districted to the school, BHS has a Visual & Performing Arts Magnet Program that attracts students from around Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties. The VPA Program provides rigorous pre-professional instruction in dance, digital film and animation, music, theatre, live entertainment production and design, and visual art. The VPA season includes more than a dozen events on our main stage and art studios, and the events and work done through the VPA program have earned the school-wide acclaim. Some notable VPA graduates are American Idol Finalist Syesha Mercado, NBC's Chicago Fire star Charlie Barnett, and Oscar-winning makeup artist Bill Corso.