UPDATE: Lakewood Ranch High School administration calls off lockdown

UPDATE: The lockdown was called off just after 2 p.m.

Lakewood Ranch High School was on lockdown for more than an hour after the school received a threat over the phone.

At 1:30 p.m. the school went to a soft lockdown, meaning the students could walk around but not leave campus. Parents who were on site to pick up their children were allowed to do so.

“It was scary,” said 17-year-old Vallencia Satira, after being picked up by her father. “Nobody knew what was going on.”

Teachers did not have information to share with students until about 20 minutes before the school went on soft lock down. Students learned of the threat by reading about it on their cell phones, she said.

Mike Barber, spokesman for Manatee County School District, said the threatening call was received just before noon.

Principal Craig Little addressed the situation to about a dozen parents who had arrived to pick up their students at around 1:20 p.m., saying the front office had received a prank-type call with a vague threat.

“With anything these days, we take everything as a credible threat,” Little said.

This is the second threatening call Lakewood Ranch High School has received this month. On Feb. 10, the school received another similar call. However the call was made after school hours so the school was not put on lockdown.

The Sheriff's Office finished the perimeter search; students were dismissed at 1:45 p.m. to attend their last class of the day. The school day ends at 2:05 p.m.

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office secured the school perimeter, and the Sheriff's Office and school administrators deemed the threat non-credible after investigation.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated when new information becomes available.