Alachua County School Board votes to move forward with comprehensive rezoning process

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - After parent and student frustration boiled over, Alachua County schools will be fully rezoned in about a year and a half.

The school board voted 3-2 on Tuesday to begin the full rezoning process in time for the 2024-2025 school year.

Many had wanted to “spot rezone” some overcrowded schools for this fall, but that would eliminate the opportunity for comprehensive zoning the next year.

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Board chair Tina Certain and Leonetta Mcnealy voted against the process.

“When folks say ‘Spot’ isn’t the way to go, we did a spot rezoning last spring. When we rebuilt Idyllwild and opened that school up, it was going to be over capacity and we already rebuilt Metcalf and it had a lot of capacity, so we did just consider those two schools”, said Certain.

This comprehensive rezoning would include all K-12 students in the county.

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