JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Duval County Public Schools held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for a new elementary school on the Northside.
The new Highlands Elementary School is scheduled to open in August 2024.
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The new school building will mark the third elementary school to be built under the taxpayer-funded master facility plan and will be built on the property of the existing school.
The new school will be just over 98,000 square feet with an enrollment capacity of more than 750 students.
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In addition to standard classrooms, the new school will feature Exceptional Student Education (ESE) classrooms, an art lab, a music room, and a skills lab.
Students zoned to attend Highlands Elementary will temporarily transition to the Martin Luther King Jr. campus for the 2023-2024 school year. That campus is vacant because students from that school are going to be attending the newly built Rutledge Pearson Elementary School.
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Students from Highlands and Pine Estates Elementary School will consolidate to form one school once the new facility is finished.
The project’s design and construction budget is $53 million.
Watch the video below to see what Duval School Board Member Darryl Willie had to say about the new school:
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