New School Construction
Planning Phase/Under Construction
K-8 School NN
855 Timberwolf Trail, St. Augustine, FL 32092
K-8 School NN will serve kindergarten through 8th grade and will be located on approximately 26.5 acres on Timberwolf Trail within the Shearwater development in northwest St. Johns County. It will accommodate approximately 1500 students. This school has been designed to provide both traditional and non-traditional settings. Classroom areas accommodate groupings by grade or as multi-age students using teaching teams. Moveable walls between classroom pairs facilitate the team-teaching approach. Common area with computer labs and kitchen areas allow for flexibility of instructional methods and group learning activities. These features enable teachers and paraprofessional to work cooperatively to facilitate learning for students through a variety of methods. This schools’ spaces include 32 primary classrooms; 22 intermediate classrooms; 6 science labs; resources rooms; skills labs; exceptional education spaces, art rooms; music rooms; physical education spaces; vocational education labs; a media center and support spaces; an administrative suite; food service and dining facilities; stage; multipurpose room; student and public restrooms; and custodial spaces. K-8 School NN will be funded through a combination of the Certificates of Participation (COPs), Proportionate Share Mitigation funds, School Impact Fees, 1.5 Mills and CO & DS funds. The school is expected to be completed in the summer of 2024 and open for the 2024-2025 school year.
K-8 School OO
1455 Twin Creeks Drive, St. Augustine, FL 32095
K-8 School OO will serve kindergarten through 8th grade and will be located on approximately 40 acres on Twin Creek Drive within the Beacon Lakes portion of the Twin Creeks DRI development in northcentral St. Johns County. It will accommodate approximately 1500 students. This school has been designed to provide both traditional and non-traditional settings. Classroom areas accommodate groupings by grade or as multi-age students using teaching teams. Moveable walls between classroom pairs facilitate the team-teaching approach. Common area with computer labs and kitchen areas allow for flexibility of instructional methods and group learning activities. These features enable teachers and paraprofessional to work cooperatively to facilitate learning for students through a variety of methods. This schools’ spaces include 32 primary classrooms; 22 intermediate classrooms; 6 science labs; resources rooms; skills labs; exceptional education spaces, art rooms; music rooms; physical education spaces; vocational education labs; a media center and support spaces; an administrative suite; food service and dining facilities; stage; multipurpose room; student and public restrooms; and custodial spaces. K-8 School OO will be funded through a combination of the Certificates of Participation (COPs), Proportionate Share Mitigation funds and School Impact Fees. The school is expected to be completed in the summer of 2024 and open for the 2024-2025 school year.
K-8 School PP
2505 RiverTown Main Street, Saint Johns, FL 32259
K-8 School PP will be constructed as a K-8 Academy and initially serve kindergarten through 8th grade. It will be located on approximately 32 acres on RiverTown Main Street within the RiverTown development in northwest St. Johns County. It will accommodate approximately 1100 students. This school will convert to a Middle School at a future date after an elementary school has been constructed within RiverTown. This school has been designed to provide both traditional and non-traditional settings. Classroom areas accommodate groupings by grade or as multi-age students using teaching teams. Moveable walls between classroom pairs facilitate the team-teaching approach. Common area with computer labs and kitchen areas allow for flexibility of instructional methods and group learning activities. These features enable teachers and paraprofessional to work cooperatively to facilitate learning for students through a variety of methods. K-8 School PP will be funded through a combination of the Certificates of Participation (COPs), Proportionate Share Mitigation funds and School Impact Fees. The school is expected to be completed in the summer of 2025 and open for the 2025-2026 school year.
Completed Construction
Beachside High School (High School III)
200 Great Barracuda Way, Saint Johns, FL 32259
Beachside High School in northeast St. Johns County was recently constructed on Great Barracuda Way within the Twin Creeks development. Beachside opened for the 2022-2023 School Year. This project was included in the School District’s Five-Year District Facilities Work Plan. An architectural contract with SchenkelShultz Architecture was approved at the July 14, 2020 School Board meeting for the reuse of a prototype design from Tocoi Creek High School. The planned student station count for Beachside High School is approximately 2,100. It is comprised of five separate buildings surrounding a secure courtyard. These five buildings comprise the following; Administration/Media Center, Auditorium, Gymnasium, Cafeteria and a Classroom Building. Classrooms exist in all buildings except the Cafeteria, but the majority are housed in the three-story classroom building. This building houses general education classes, ESE classes and science labs, along with a collaborative concourse on each floor. These collaborative areas will provide a space for project-based learning, small group instruction and flexible groupings. The construction of the school was funded through Certificates of Participation (COPs).
Tocoi Creek High School (High School HHH)
11200 St. Johns Parkway, St. Augustine, FL 32092
Tocoi Creek High School serves grades 9-12 and is located on an approximately 69 acre site located on International Golf Parkway in northwest St. Johns County and will accommodate approximately 2,100 students. This school was designed by ShenkelShultz by utilizing a reuse of a middle/high school from another school district that was adapted to the best practices of the St. Johns County School District. It is comprised of five separate buildings surrounding a secure courtyard. These five buildings comprise the following Administration/Media Center; Auditorium, Gymnasium, Cafeteria and a Classroom Building. The construction of the school was funded through Certificates of Participation (COPs). This high school opened for the 2021-2022 school year.
Pine Island Academy (K-8 School MM)
805 Pine Island Road St. Augustine Florida 32095
Pine Island Academy serves kindergarten through 8th grade and is located on approximately 25 acres on Pine Island Road within the Nocatee development in northeast St. Johns County. It accommodates approximately 1500 students. This school has been designed to provide both traditional and non-traditional settings. Classroom areas accommodate groupings by grade or as multi-age students using teaching teams. Moveable walls between classroom pairs facilitate the team teaching approach. Common area with computer labs and kitchen areas allow for flexibility of instructional methods and group learning activities. These features enable teachers and paraprofessional t work cooperatively to facilitate learning for students through a variety of methods. This schools’ spaces include 32 primary classrooms; 22 intermediate classrooms; 6 science labs; resources rooms; skills labs; exceptional education spaces, art rooms; music rooms; physical education spaces; vocational education labs; a media center and support spaces; an administrative suite; food service and dining facilities; stage; multipurpose room; student and public restrooms; and custodial spaces. K-8 School “MM” was funded through a combination of the Half-Cent Sales Surtax, School Impact Fees and Certificates of Participation (COPs). The opened for the 2021-2022 school year.
Liberty Pines Academy
10901 Russell Sampson Road, Saint Johns, FL 32259
Liberty Pines Academy is located on Russell Sampson Road in northwest St. Johns County. A classroom expansion for the school was included on the Half-Cent Sales Tax Critically Needed Project List and was funded by Sales Tax. This new two-story classroom addition is located at the rear of the school behind the two-story middle school portion of the original building. An architectural contract with Harvard Jolly Architecture (formerly Tercilla Courtemanche Architects) was approved at the April 9, 2019 School Board meeting for the reuse of our current K-8 prototype design. There are 20 classrooms in the addition, which increases the permanent school capacity by 440 students. The addition features movable walls between two-classroom teams, as well as extended learning areas and state of the art technology. The addition opened for the 2020-2021 School Year.
