Redistricting plans for some Clay County high schools gets thumbs up from school board

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The Clay County schoolhouse Board is expected to ballot connected a redistricting connection that would alteration schools for immoderate students successful the Argyle Forest area. The determination could mean hundreds of students whitethorn beryllium forced to alteration schools adjacent year.

ORANGE PARK, Fla. – During the Clay County School Board’s gathering Thursday nighttime successful Green Cove Springs, committee members made last votes successful favour of 3 plans to realign precocious schoolhouse boundaries.

The committee had said to escaped up space, astir 350 students astatine Oakleaf schools would request to determination to Orange Park inferior and elder precocious schools.

The committee voted 4-1 connected the bound realignment for Oakleaf High and Orange Park High, 4-1 connected the realignment for Oakleaf Junior High and Orange Park Junior High, and 5-0 successful favour of the program connected the realignment for Oakleaf High School to Ridgeview High School.

LINK: Clay County precocious schoolhouse bound changes

Notably of the plans:

Seventh-grade students would power inferior precocious schools successful 2022 and eighth-graders would beryllium capable to enactment astatine their schools.
Incoming freshmen, sophomores and juniors would determination to Orange Park, portion incoming seniors would beryllium capable to enactment astatine Oakleaf.

The schoolhouse committee said the authorities of Florida volition not supply backing to physique schools successful the country until the territory tin amusement each schoolhouse is astatine capacity.

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