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Marion board launches North End rezoning push, forms advisory committee and weighs new Spar‑Anthony school
Summary
District officials proposed a rezoning and capital strategy for the North End that includes forming an Attendance Boundary Advisory Committee and studying options from targeted redistricting to a combined Spar‑Anthony elementary.
District officials on Nov. 6 presented a multi‑part strategy to address projected enrollment shifts in northern Marion County, proposing rezoning, a new attendance boundary advisory committee, and a set of capital moves to address underutilized campuses.
Mr. Whitehouse told the board the district's conservative growth forecast is roughly 600 students per year (about 6,000 over 10 years), concentrated in two corridors. Staff identified Anthony, Fessenden, Oakcrest, Ocala Springs, Reddick Collier and Sparr elementary schools for focused review. "If you take all of those elementary schools and combine the total number of seats and the total number of students enrolled across all those schools, we're at 82% utilization for that group," he said, arguing that redistricting could get the…
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