It is part of the Elk Grove Unified School District and serves the portion of southern Sacramento that is to the east of California State Route 99.

The district named Florin High after Florin, a neighborhood in unincorporated Sacramento County, California that used to be a farming community growing primarily strawberries until a combination of the Japanese American Internment and land development replaced the strawberry fields with suburban tracts.

Florin High School's architecture adopts the University of Virginia's "academical village" building plan.

Other permanent classrooms exist as contemporaries to the anchor architecture plan.

Since the school's inception, the Elk Grove Unified School District has added a number of other permanent and temporary classrooms.