WINTER PARK, Fla. -- A group of students at Winter Park High School (see map) are fighting back after they say there were accused of being gang members. They said they are picked on because they are all from the Pine Hills area.

The school's principal, William Gordon, met with some of the students' parents at the school Monday morning and told Eyewitness News he is taking it very seriously and plans to do a full investigation.

The five Winter Park students had on the same black t-shirts Monday that they wore to school last Tuesday. They told Eyewitness News they were called into the main office one at a time to explain to administrators and police why they were wearing the same color clothes.

"Nervous, scary, frightened kind of feeling. When they came and got me out of my class, felt like I was in an interrogation room," student Daquan Arnette said.

The students said they didn't get to answer a lot of questions, instead everyone insisted they were in a gang.

"'We know what neighborhood you're from. We know how they act around there. So don't BS us.' Tell us the truth,'" student Lantz Mills, Jr. explained.

"Tell the truth about what?" WFTV reporter Daralene Jones asked.

"That we're in a gang," Mills said.

The students are all from Pine Hills and have developed friendships. Their parents transferred them to Winter Park because their neighborhood school, Evans, was an F-rated school.

The students and their parents showed Eyewitness News referrals that appear to accuse them of congregating in one location, dressed in all black shirts. They had to sign so-called gang contracts, agreeing essentially not to let it happen again.

"This is racism to you?" reporter Daralene Jones asked.

"I know it's racism," parent Lantz Mills said.

The students claim it's just one example of how they're singled out because they're from Pine Hills and consistently told what they can do if they don't like it.

"'If you don't like it, you can go back to Evans, because that's where you belong,'" Arnette said.

Principal Gordon told Eyewitness News it's not against school policy for a group of students to wear the same color clothes. He insisted he doesn't believe they were written up for that, but instead for talking louder than normal in the hallway because the referral also shows they were written up for unauthorized assembly.

Gordon told Eyewitness News had not seen a copy of that referral, so he was going to comment after reviewing it.