Pasco County School Board members are seeking suggestions for a formal name for a new school being built in the Wiregrass Ranch area of Wesley Chapel.
Crews are bustling around the site, as construction work continues on the school, which has been known generically as Elementary W.
The school board is asking the public, district staff and students to suggest names so that it can select one before the structure opens.
Classes are scheduled to begin at the new elementary school in August.
(B.C. Manion/Staff Photo)
The structure is being built on Mansfield Boulevard, across from John Long Middle School, and down the street from Wiregrass Ranch High School and Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch.
When it opens, it will give Wesley Chapel students the opportunity to attend kindergarten through college, along the same road.
School board policy encourages the community, educators and students to suggest names for district schools.
The school board prefers to name schools after the general location, features of the area, or historical information about the school’s location, and the suggested name must be descriptive and brief, according to a school district news release.
If the name of an individual is submitted, it should be of a person of prominence, recognized for his or her outstanding civic or educational contribution, the news release adds. The board will only consider naming a school after an elected official or school district employee has been deceased for two or more years, or has left public office or district employment more than two years ago.
Once a name is adopted, it is considered permanent unless the facility or its use changes.
If you would like to suggest a permanent name for the school now known as Elem W, submit your suggestions with a brief explanation for each school name by Feb. 29.
Email submissions using the Subject “Elementary W” to , fax them to (813) 794-2716, or mail them to: Linda Cobbe, Communications & Government Relations Department, 7227 Land O’ Lakes Blvd., Land O’ Lakes, 34638.
Published February 3, 2016
