Beachside High: New St. Johns County high school near artificial beach gets a name

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Despite being miles distant from a earthy beach, a caller precocious schoolhouse being built successful St. Johns County volition beryllium named Beachside High School, a divided schoolhouse committee decided Tuesday.

Although it’s a ways from the ocean, the caller schoolhouse volition beryllium located wrong Beachwalk, a backstage masterplan assemblage successful St. Johns that features an artificial 14-acre lagoon with an artificial beach. The Beachwalk assemblage is located connected County Road 210 conscionable eastbound of Interstate 95 and encompasses 900 acres.

Bayside High School, Ocean Valley High School, St. Johns High School and Sampson Creek High School were besides successful the running, but Beachside High won connected a 3-2 ballot from the schoolhouse committee owed mostly to the outpouring of enactment from the assemblage implicit the past 2 weeks.

“We person heard from many, many, many, galore radical requesting that we sanction the schoolhouse Beachside High School due to the fact that of its proximity to the formation of the 14-acre, immoderate that assemblage of h2o is called, successful Beachwalk. I person nary absorption to that,” committee subordinate Beverly Slough said during a lengthy treatment connected the caller name.

School committee members Bill Mignon and Kelly Barrera voted against the name.

“My interest with that is that it’s 1 schoolhouse and a large large district, and erstwhile you look astatine the mileage of however acold it is from the beach, extracurricular of that assemblage erstwhile you accidental Beachside it’s astir humorous, due to the fact that folks are like, it’s not adjacent to the beach,” Barrera said.

Mignon, who supported naming the caller schoolhouse St. Johns High School, expressed concerns implicit the precocious propulsion for Beachside which came aft the authoritative naming process.

In a erstwhile meeting, board members seemed to beryllium leaning towards Sampson High School.

A typical of much than 550 parents of aboriginal students of the caller precocious school, which volition beryllium located connected Beachwalk Boulevard, told the schoolhouse committee determination was overwhelming enactment for Beachside High School. They argued the sanction is amusive and unsocial to the community.

“This is the astir hard determination we’ve had to marque each year,” schoolhouse committee seat Patrick Canan joked.

Up next, a mascot sanction volition beryllium picked by a committee made up of assemblage members and that’s down to five, mostly water-themed choices: Barracudas, Beasts, Kraken, Riptide and Tritons.

Beachside High School main Greg Bergamasco said the schoolhouse colors volition beryllium blue, lime greenish and grey.

The school, which is acceptable to unfastened successful clip for the 2022-23 schoolhouse year, is expected to person much than 2,000 students and alleviate overcrowding issues astatine adjacent schools.

Despite a increasing pupil population, the territory said it doesn’t expect different precocious schoolhouse to beryllium built successful the region for astatine slightest 5 years due to the fact that it doesn’t person the borrowing capableness to money a caller precocious school.

The outgo to physique Beachside High was expected to beryllium astir $60 million.

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