The School Board votes Tuesday on the plans for High School JJJ, the district’s next high school. If you are raising a future high schooler anywhere near SilverLeaf, this is the building your kid may end up in.
The item says the school goes at County Road 16A and Silverlake Drive, inside the SilverLeaf development. PBK Architecture designed it as a reuse of Ponte Vedra High School, expanded to hold 2,100 students, and the district projects it opens for the 2029-30 school year.
Here is what that means for your kid. A child in sixth grade this year would be in ninth when the doors are projected to open. No attendance zone exists yet. No rezoning map comes with Tuesday’s vote either, so the boundary question, which is the one that moves kids, comes later.
One thing in the packet does not match itself.
The item being voted on says the design is a reuse of Ponte Vedra High School. The Capital Projects Status Report, in the same packet, says the school will be constructed from the New High School CCC (Northeast) design and construction documents. The paper flagged those two answers in October. Both are still in print.
The money so far: the capital outlay table in the packet carries High School JJJ at $17,709,560 in new project funds for 2026-27, and the item says the school is paid for from school impact fees, proportionate share mitigation and half-cent sales tax money. The $6,233,469 architectural fee passed Oct. 13, and the draft minutes of that meeting, which ride Tuesday’s packet for approval, show how: it sat on the consent agenda and went through 5-0 on a single motion, with no separate discussion recorded. What the fee was before that increase is not in this packet either.
You will not see the floor plans. The item says they are not attached because of a public records exemption and school safety concerns. They go to the board members separately.
The rest of Tuesday’s agenda closes out two schools rather than opening one. The board is asked for final acceptance of Sabal Crest Academy and Magnolia Oaks Academy, the two K-8 schools the district has been building, and for the final change order on Sabal Crest. There are also plans for a new workforce training facility at First Coast Technical College’s Hastings campus, projected to open for 2028-29.
The meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium at 40 Orange Street, and on Webex. Public comment has its own slot near the top.
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