Vero Beach High School is located on Florida's east coast, in Vero Beach, the county seat of Indian River County. Officially founded in 1925, VBHS is a large, comprehensive high school. As of 2013, the high school serves 2,803 students in grades 9-12 who reside in the southern portion of Indian River County. The school is operated by the Indian River County School District.The campus of VBHS encompasses approximately 77acre, which includes the Freshman Learning Center and main campus areas. The combination of school enrollment and the size of the physical plant make VBHS the largest high school in Indian River County. The Freshman Learning Center serves about 750 9th grade students.Vero Beach High School has completed a three-year, $51 million remodeling project.The school's motto is: "VBHS... Together We Achieve Success."HistoryVero Beach High School can trace its history back to the class of 1905, and a one-room schoolhouse where children of all ages were taught. In 1925, the first official Vero Beach High School opened. It was located about a half-mile north of the current location, where Vero Beach High School's Freshman Learning Center stands today.After Vero Beach High School moved to its present-day location in 1963, the old high school became Vero Beach Junior High School, and VBHS took on a new official name, Vero Beach Senior High School.In 1977, the junior high school was becoming insufficient for housing all of the county's junior high schoolers, and was torn down to make way for a new, smaller school, Indian River Middle 8 - the present-day home of the Freshman Learning Center, and soon to become a middle school again, once all the renovations at Vero Beach High School are complete. Prior to the completion of Sebastian River High School in 1994, Vero Beach High School was the only public high school in Indian River County.
