Dance Videos On Now-Famous Staircase Earn ‘TikTok High’ Nickname For Venice High School

VENICE, FL — A TikTok famous staircase at Venice High School has earned the school the nickname of “TikTok High” after dance videos filmed on the stairs have garnered a significant following on the app.

The videos featuring students — many of them uniformed athletes at Venice High School — dancing at the school with the staircase as their backdrop, as well as parody and reaction videos, have racked up millions of views in recent weeks.

Most of the videos feature a dance to “Booty” by T-Pain that was choreographed by user @jae.moves, according to Insider.

As of Thursday afternoon, the hashtag #venicehighschool has 16.2 million views, while the hashtag #venicehighstairs has 2.6 million views. And the search term “Venice High School stairs” has about 21.7 million views.

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With all these views, a new hashtag has started being used for videos from the school: #tiktokhigh

One user, @charleigh.morris, even posted a video about how she “flew half way across the country to visit the stair school.”

She told her followers that the famous school “lives up to the hype.”

Another user, @garyleesgrannylee, shared a compilation of videos from Venice High School and asked, “Do they even go to class at stairwell school?”

One user shared a video that appeared to show screenshots of emails from the school’s athletic director sharing concerns with about the viral TikTok trend at the school.

“These videos have made national news and include songs with lyrics that are inappropriate for school,” reads an email featured in the video. “We don’t want this to be a distraction from any of our students’ academic or athletic performance, so please explain to them that they should stop recording and posting them immediately.”

When asked about the screenshotted emails and the viral video trend, Kelsey Whealy, a media relations specialist for Sarasota County Schools, told Patch, “No changes have been made to existing school rules, School Board policies or the district’s social media guidelines. Staff members were asked to remind all students about the importance of properly representing themselves as individuals, and the school as a whole, as well as the importance of being on time for class and safely using school facilities.”

Patch has also reached out to Pete Dombroski, athletic director, and Ryan Shurley, assistant principal, at Venice High School for comments.