Moving Forward, Looking Back
Sanders Memorial Elementary School: 62 Years of Education in Pasco
Today, the historic Sanders Memorial Elementary School is the scene of an extensive remodeling and renovation project — the next chapter in the school’s lengthy history.
Sanders Memorial Elementary School, 5126 School Rd., has served the Land O’ Lakes community and Pasco County for more than 60 years. But, at the end of the 2009-10 scholastic year the school officially closed as part of an extensive renovation and expansion project that will bring this early institution of learning into the 21st century — just one of numerous improvements made to the facility since it opened in the mid-1940s. Sanders Wasn't the Area's First School Following the arrival of the railroad to the area, records indicate the earliest school established in what is now Land O’ Lakes was the Drexel School in the mid to late 1890s, when the community was also known as Drexel. According to Citrus, Sawmills, Critters, & Crackers, in …
