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60-531: Alachua County Public Schools is a public school district serving all of Alachua County in North Central Florida. It serves approximately 29,845 students in 64 schools and centers. The district is governed by the School Board of Alachua County, which is made up of five board members elected at large who serve staggered, four-year terms. In 2015, the district's average SAT score of 1620

120-481: A "board of trustees," "board of education," "school committee," etc.. This body usually appoints or hires an experienced public school administrator to function as the district's superintendent of schools – a district's chief executive . The superintendent oversees daily operations, decisions and implements the policies of the board. The school board may also exercise a quasi-judicial function in serious employee or student discipline matters. School districts in

180-649: A bookstore, run by the Friends of the Library, whose proceeds benefit the library system. The only hospital that operates in Spring Hill is TGH Spring Hill . Nearby Weeki Wachee Springs is home to the famous live mermaid show and Florida's only spring-fed water park, Buccaneer Bay . There are two print newspapers that serve the area: the Hernando Times (a publication of Tampa Bay Times ), and

240-626: A certain degree comparable to a school district. Other arrangements are possible: certain types of special schools in North Rhine-Westphalia are run by the Landschaftsverbände . There also exist private schools , mostly funded by the States, but run by private entities like churches or foundations. In Italy , school districts were established in 1974 by the " Provvedimenti Delegati sulla scuola " ("Assigned Laws [to

300-480: A cut in spending, and the school year for county supported schools, which had been five months long, was reduced to three months. The Union Academy, however, remained in session for six months a year, and then operated another two months as a normal school training African-American teachers. For a number of years public schools in Alachua County met in old houses or other rented spaces. The first building in

360-568: A decline in property tax revenues during and after the Great Recession . By 2016 there were about 13,000 school districts, and the average student population was about 5,000. Although these terms can vary slightly between various states and regions, these are typical definitions for school district constitution: These terms may not appear in a district's name, even though the condition may apply. In England and Wales , school boards were established in 1870, and abolished in 1902, with

420-411: A decrease of 38,127 or 35%. Many states had passed laws facilitating school district consolidation. In 1951 the majority of the school districts in existence were rural school districts only providing elementary education, and some school districts did not operate schools but instead provided transportation to other schools. The Midwest had a large number of rural school districts. Previously areas of

480-473: A family services center (Fearnside Family Services Center) and an environmental education center (Camp Crystal Lake). The School Board of Alachua County also operates the virtual , online Alachua eSchool. Private, for-profit, and charter schools are not administered by the School Board of Alachua County, and are not included in these lists. Elementary schools in the county run from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade, unless otherwise noted. Middle schools in

540-874: A general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . On August 27, 2017, following the August 11 and August 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia , the School Board of Alachua County renamed the Kirby Smith Center At the time of the name change, School Board Chair Robert Hyatt stated that the board considered the name change prior to the Unite the Right rally . Prior to June, 2020,

600-401: A grant of authority and within geographic limits created by state law. The executive and legislative power over locally-controlled policies and operations of an independent school district are, in most cases, held by a school district's board of education. Depending on state law, members of a local board of education (often referred to informally as a school board ) may be elected, appointed by

660-641: A minority of secondary schools , a few primary schools, and much further education . (Most schools are neither organized geographically nor publicly managed, although the Department of Education inspects and funds them and pays teachers' salaries.) Each ETB area comprises one or more local authority areas , with city or county councilors forming the bulk of the ETB board. The ETBs was formed in 2005 by amalgamating Vocational Education Committees established in 1930, also based on local government areas. In Hong Kong ,

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720-464: A nurse on campus full-time. School resource officers/deputies are also assigned to all schools. The Alachua County Board of Public Instruction was established in 1869. Prior to that year there had been no publicly supported schools in the county. The Board of County Commissioners had provided for the payment of tuition to private schools for students whose families could not afford the tuition, but few families were willing to be seen as paupers and receive

780-407: A political office holder, serve ex officio , or a combination of any of these. An independent school district is a legally separate body corporate and political . Most school districts operate as independent local governmental units with exclusive authority over K–12 public educational operations and policies. The extent of their control is set by state-level law. Litigation against school districts

840-573: A previous sub-section of this article, removal of Confederate monuments and memorials is motivated by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a treasonous government with founding principles based on the perpetuation and expansion of slavery . An opposing belief also exists, that monuments and memorials to Confederates are part of the cultural heritage of the southern United States of America. 29°39′25″N 82°18′07″W  /  29.657°N 82.302°W  / 29.657; -82.302 School district In

900-581: A safe haven for many imperiled species, and most of it remained unchanged until the 1970’s with large scale deforestation. It first appeared on Hernando County maps as early as 1856 along what is today Fort Dade Avenue just north of the community of Wiscon . The modern Spring Hill was founded in 1967 as a planned community , which was developed by the Deltona Corporation and the Mackle Brothers . The developers originally wanted to call

960-455: A school system that is separate but similar to a town's or a county's powers. These include the power to enter contacts, use eminent domain , and to issue binding rules and regulations affecting school policies and operations. The power of school districts to tax and spend is generally more limited. For example, many school districts in New York state require a majority of voters living in

1020-494: A school was opened in 1895 in the new community of Alachua . A new building for the school opened in 1901. Over the next few years schools in the neighboring communities of Newnansville , Haynsworth, Greenleaf, Hague , Gracy, Perseverance, Spring Hill , Santa Fe, Bland and LaCrosse were closed and the students moved to the Alachua school. In 1917 the high school classes were moved to a new building. In 1955 Alachua High School

1080-710: A single school district." Noting that most modern school districts were formed by consolidating one-room school districts in the first seven decades of the 20th century, Fischel argues that "outside the South, these consolidations were consented to by local voters" who "preferred districts whose boundaries conformed to their everyday interactions rather than formal units of government" and that "[t]he South ended up with county-based school districts because segregation imposed diseconomies of scale on district operations and required larger land-area districts." In New York , most school districts are separate governmental units with

1140-560: A sprawling semi-city in its own right, though it is an unincorporated area . The main entrance to the original development is marked by the Spring Hill waterfall on Spring Hill Drive and U.S. Route 19 (Commercial Way). Spring Hill's proximity to Tampa, 40 miles (64 km) to the south, and the completion of the Suncoast Parkway in 2001 have made the community easily accessible to the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Spring Hill

1200-553: A week since expanding to include Saturday service in October 2019. The four current routes are: Additionally, paratransit services are available via Trans-Hernando, which offers door-to-door services by advance reservation for the elderly, mentally challenged, and economic/transportation disadvantaged residents of Hernando County. There are several county roads in Spring Hill that serve as major thoroughfares for traffic traveling around and passing through Spring Hill. Below

1260-565: Is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hernando County , Florida , United States. The population was 113,568 at the 2020 census , up from 98,621 at the 2010 census . Spring Hill belongs to Florida's Nature Coast region and is in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area. It is east of Hernando Beach , southwest of Brooksville , and north of Tampa . Spring Hill was formerly a large tract of endangered Longleaf Pine Ecosystem and Sand Pine Scrub with very high biodiversity, and

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1320-427: Is common and some law firms specialize in education law. Districts typically maintain professional liability insurance in order to pay its settlements and legal liabilities. As of 2023 in most U.S. states, public school districts may lay taxes to fund their operations. In others, such as Maine , some school districts are able to lay taxes and others are not. Independent school districts often exercise authority over

1380-410: Is located in southwestern Hernando County at 28°28′44″N 82°32′52″W  /  28.47889°N 82.54778°W  / 28.47889; -82.54778 (28.478929, & 82.547732). It is bordered to the west by Timber Pines ; to the north by Weeki Wachee , North Weeki Wachee , High Point , Brookridge , and Wiscon ; and to the east by South Brooksville , Garden Grove , and Masaryktown . To

1440-549: Is partially covered by the Shady Hills and Quail Ridge CDPs. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 113,568 people, 43,121 households, and 30,380 families residing in the CDP. For the period 2013–17, the estimated median annual household income in the CDP was $ 45,468, and the median family income was $ 53,017. Male full-time workers had a median income of $ 39,478 versus $ 35,059 for females. The per capita income for

1500-671: The Education Bureau divides primary schools into 36 districts, known as school nets, for its Primary One Admission System . Of the 36 districts, districts 34 and 41 in Kowloon and districts 11 and 12 in Hong Kong Island are considered the most prestigious. In Iranian cities school kids normal registrations are limited by school districts, register is online at my.medu.ir and the parent sees schools within range online. Spring Hill, Florida Spring Hill

1560-735: The Florida Board of Education to take action against the Alachua County School Board, including financial penalties. The district subsequently became the first in the nation to receive a U.S. Education Department grant to cover the cost of garnished wages for school board members who voted for mask requirements and other COVID-19 mitigation measures. The district has 48 schools including 31 elementary schools, 9 middle schools , 8 high schools, two special education centers (Sidney Lanier School and A. Quinn Jones Center), an early childhood center (Duval Early Learning Academy),

1620-536: The Hernando County School Board school system, which oversees all public schools in Hernando County . The main public schools that serve the Spring Hill area are: High schools Middle schools K-8 schools Elementary schools In addition to the public schools in Spring Hill, there are several private schools : Spring Hill is home to the 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m ) Spring Hill Campus of Pasco–Hernando State College . This

1680-830: The Hernando Sun . Spring Hill belongs in the Tampa Bay Area media market, the 12th largest designated market area in the United States. Public transit in Spring Hill is provided by Hernando County Transit ( The Bus ), which consists of four routes which serve Spring Hill and Brooksville, and which also provides a connection to the Pasco County Bus System (PCPT) via the Purple Route's terminus in Hudson . The Bus system operates six days

1740-790: The Midwest and West tend to cross municipal boundaries, while school districts in New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions tend to adhere to city, township, and/or county boundaries. As of 1951 school districts were independent governmental units in 26 states, while in 17 states there were mixes of independent school districts and school districts subordinate to other local governments. In nine states there were only school districts subordinate to local governments. In most Southern states, school systems operate either as an arm of county government or at least share coextensive boundaries with

1800-710: The Unorganized Borough of Alaska were not served by school districts but instead served by schools directly operated by the Alaska Department of Education and by Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools. The state schools were transferred to the Alaska State-Operated School System (SOS) after the Alaska Legislature created it in 1971; that agency was terminated in 1975, with its schools transferred to

1860-442: The county council and county borough councils becoming the local education authorities . In France, the system of the carte scolaire was dismantled by the beginning of the 2007 school year. More school choice has been given to French students; however, priority is given to those who meet the following criteria: In Germany , schools and teachers are predominately funded by the states of Germany , which also are in control of

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1920-503: The cultural heritage of the southern United States of America. In August 2017, the School Board of Alachua County acknowledged the Finley legacy as potentially problematic, but declined to take action to rename the school. On June 16, 2020, the School Board of Alachua County (Florida) removed J.J. Finley's name from the school, during international protest associated with the murder of George Floyd . The school board on August 18, 2020, named

1980-416: The 39,078 households in 2010, 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.6% were headed by married couples living together, 12.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.9% were non-families. 23.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.3% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49, and the average family size

2040-410: The CDP was $ 22,349. About 10.7% of families and 14.9% of the total population were below the poverty line , including 22.6% of those under age 18 and 9.6% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2010 United States census , there were 98,621 people, 38,333 households, and 27,272 families residing in the CDP. At the 2010 census, the population density was 1,649 inhabitants per square mile (637/km ). Of

2100-734: The Gainesville Graded and High School moved to a new building, designated as Gainesville High School , in 1923. That same year the Lincoln School opened, replacing the Reconstruction-era Union Academy. Gainesville High School was moved to a new building in 1955. Gainesville High School was integrated in 1970 and Lincoln High School was closed, leaving Gainesville High School as the only high school in Gainesville. In northwestern Alachua County

2160-557: The Government] about the school"). Each district must contain a minimum of 10,000 inhabitants. The national government attempted to link the local schools with local society and culture and local governments. The school districts were dissolved in 2003 by the "legge finanziaria" (law about the government budget) in an attempt to trim the national budget. In the Republic of Ireland, 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs) administer

2220-402: The U.S., most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts. A school district usually operate several elementary , middle , and high schools . The largest urban and suburban districts operate hundreds of schools. While practice varies significantly by state (and in some cases, within a state), most American school districts operate as independent local governmental units under

2280-403: The United States tend to be different from the demographics of the students. This difference is "most pronounced in majority nonwhite jurisdictions and school districts with the largest racial achievement gaps ." There were 130,000 school districts in the country in 1930, with an average student population of 150. From 1942 to 1951 the number of school districts declined from 108,579 to 70,452,

2340-716: The aid. In 1866 the state-supported East Florida Seminary, which had been in Ocala until it closed early in the Civil War , was re-opened in Gainesville using the facilities of the private Gainesville Academy. The next year the Union Academy , a school for African-Americans sponsored by the Freedmen's Bureau , opened in Gainesville. By 1870 there were 22 schools in Alachua County, each with its own board of trustees. The schools were integrated, and therefore unpopular with most of

2400-485: The committee's recommended plan to the courts, the committee submitted it directly to the court, which ordered it to be implemented. Students were assigned to schools so that each school had a 70% white - 30% black ratio. Three elementary schools and Lincoln High School were closed. In 2021 the district chose to implement a mask mandate despite Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis prohibiting local school districts from doing so. The conflict brought national attention and led

2460-406: The community Spring Lake and used that as the working name through the development process. They were forced to use a different name due to the name Spring Lake already being in use locally and chose Spring Hill. The plans for the community are identical to the community of Deltona . The Mackle Brothers sold many of the properties and land in the area through intense advertising. It has since become

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2520-630: The compositions to be disparaging to African Americans. Others, however, have argued that Foster unveiled the realities of slavery, while also imparting dignity to African Americans in his compositions, especially as he grew as an artist. Sidney Lanier served in the Confederate States Army as a private, and was promoted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy as a poet of the Confederate States of America . As stated in

2580-638: The county erected specifically for use as a district school was in Gainesville in 1885. The Gainesville Graded and High School was built in 1900. With additions over the years, it has been known as Eastside Elementary and Kirby Smith Elementary. The building eventually became the administrative headquarters of the school district, designated the Kirby Smith Center, and since 2017, the Alachua County Public Schools District Office. The high school classes of

2640-647: The county run from 6th to 8th grades, unless otherwise noted. High schools in the county run from 9th to 12th grades. The Alachua County Public Schools District Office is in a building which dates back, in part, to the Gainesville Graded and High School, which opened in 1900. When the Gainesville High School moved to a new building in 1923, the facility became the Eastside Elementary School, and later, Kirby Smith Elementary School, named after Edmund Kirby Smith ,

2700-469: The district or the local government to approval their annual budget, but school districts in Virginia have no taxing authority and must depend on another local government (county, city, or town) for funding. A district's governing body, usually called a school board , is typically elected by direct popular vote but may be appointed by other governmental officials. The governing body might also be known as

2760-470: The district. In 1969 there were still eight all-black and three all-white schools in the district. That year the U.S. Supreme Court decided, in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education , that public schools must be immediately fully desegregated. A district appeals court order established a biracial committee to advise the school board on a plan for desegregation. When the school board refused to forward

2820-686: The nation. The district also received the What Parents Want Award from SchoolMatch , the nation's largest school selection consulting firm. About 16% of school districts nationwide receive the award each year. The district offers a number of magnet programs for gifted/talented students at the elementary, middle and high school levels. It also has thirteen career-tech high school magnet programs in fields such as healthcare, biotechnology, culinary arts and emergency services. There are approximately 4,000 employees of Alachua County Public Schools. About half of them are teachers. Each school has

2880-608: The newly created Alaska Unorganized Borough School District, which was broken apart into twenty-one school districts the following year. In the 2022 Census of Governments, the United States Census Bureau enumerated the following numbers of school systems in the United States: School districts in the US have reduced the number of their employees by 3.3%, or 270,000 between 2008 and 2012, owing to

2940-504: The overall education policies. On the other hand, school buildings are mostly run and funded by municipal governments on different levels of the municipal system (municipalities proper, districts), depending on the size and specialization of a certain school or the population size of a certain municipality. As with other fields of government, for more specialized schools, special government bodies ("Zweckverband") can be established, where municipalities, and not voters, are members; these are to

3000-430: The population, while 14.3% spoke other languages as their mother tongue . The most significant were Spanish speakers who made up 10.0% of the population. Spring Hill has many schools, both public and private, which provide primary and secondary education to local children. There are also several options for higher education that are easily accessible from the Spring Hill area. Public schools in Spring Hill are part of

3060-441: The power to levy taxes and incur debt, except for the five cities with a population of over 125,000 ( Buffalo , Rochester , Syracuse , Yonkers , and New York City ), where the schools are operated directly by the municipalities. The Hawaii State Department of Education functions as a single statewide school district, unique among states. According to a 2021 study, the demographics of voters who elect local school boards in

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3120-467: The school Carolyn Beatrice Parker Elementary. Carolyn Parker was a native of Gainesville who graduated from, and later taught at, Lincoln High School in Gainesville. She worked as a research physicist in the Dayton Project during World War II. Stephen Foster is an American songwriter known primarily for parlor and minstrel music. Some modern interpretations of Foster's compositions consider

3180-496: The school was named JJ Finley Elementary School for Jesse J. Finley , who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials is motivated by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a treasonous government with founding principles based on the perpetuation and expansion of slavery . An opposing belief also exists, that monuments and memorials to Confederates are part of

3240-592: The south it is bordered by Shady Hills and Heritage Pines in Pasco County . According to the United States Census Bureau , Spring Hill has a total area of 62.2 square miles (161.2 km ), of which 59.8 square miles (154.9 km ) are land and 2.4 square miles (6.3 km ), or 3.94%, are water. The U.S. Postal Service recommends that "Spring Hill" be used as the mailing address for ZIP Code 34610 in neighboring Pasco County. The Spring Hill CDP does not extend into Pasco County; instead, this mailing area

3300-556: The state's counties. A 2010 study by economist William A. Fischel found that "two-thirds of medium-to-large American cities have boundaries that substantially overlap those of a single school district" with substantial regional and state variations in the degree of overlap, "ranging from nearly perfect congruence in New England , New Jersey, and Virginia, to hardly any in Illinois, Texas, and Florida." Older and more populous municipalities "tend to have boundaries that closely match those of

3360-408: The white population. Funding was low and the schools were poorly equipped and short of qualified teachers. The Compromise of 1877 , which marked the end of Reconstruction, left the Alachua County school system under the control of white Democrats. A segregated public school system was established, with most of the available resources going to white schools. The change in control of the schools brought

3420-428: Was 2.91. In 2010, in the CDP, 21.6% of the population were under the age of 18, 7.2% were from 18 to 24, 21.9% were from 25 to 44, 27.1% were from 45 to 64, and 22.2% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44.3 years. For every 100 females there were 90.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.7 males. For the period 2013–17, English spoken as a first language accounted for 85.7% of

3480-568: Was combined with High Springs High School as Santa Fe High School . Public schools in Alachua County were racially segregated from the end of Reconstruction in 1877. In response to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education , the Alachua County Public Schools Board was ordered by the courts to operate a freedom of choice system starting in 1964, when there were eleven all-black schools in

3540-754: Was the fourth campus built out of the five now in existence. Northwestern Christian University , an online program, has its headquarters in Spring Hill. The Hernando County Library System operates several libraries in and around the Spring Hill area, such as the West Hernando Branch Library and the Spring Hill Branch Library, which serves as a replacement of the Little Red Schoolhouse Branch Library. The historic Little Red Schoolhouse Branch Library has since been converted into

3600-411: Was the highest in the state of Florida and above the national average. The districtwide passing rate on Advanced Placement exams was 63%, higher than state, national and global passing rates on the exams, which reflect college-level material. Five of the district's six traditional high schools were ranked on The Washington Post's 2015 High School Challenge Index, placing them among the top high schools in

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