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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 the district.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) [1] was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 [2] and was later made into a movie of the same name.
Alice B. Landrum Middle School is the primary, public middle school in the area. The Ponte Vedra Palm Valley-Rawlings Elementary School serves as one of the primary, public elementary schools (K-5) in the area, as well as Ocean Palms Elementary School. [13] Ponte Vedra offers private education (K-8) at the Palmer Catholic Academy.
It is in the St. Johns County School District. [12] Most of the community is zoned to PV-PV/Rawlings Elementary School, [13] while a portion is zoned to Ocean Palms Elementary School. [14] All residents are zoned to Alice B. Landrum Middle School, [15] and Ponte Vedra High School. [16]
It is in the St. Johns County School District. [12] The community is zoned to PV-PV/Rawlings Elementary School, [13] Alice B. Landrum Middle School, [14] and Ponte Vedra High School. [15] Additionally Palmer School (K-8) is nearby. Community colleges. Florida State College of Jacksonville; Saint Johns River State College; Universities and four ...
Cross Creek is well known as the home of the American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.She wrote four of her books while actually living there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling, which was adapted as the 1946 film of the same name, and her memoir, Cross Creek, which was adapted as the 1983 film.
The district covers a total of 142 institutions: 76 elementary schools, 22 middle schools, 17 high schools, 6 alternative & exception education schools, 9 adult/vocational schools, 16 centers, and 14 charter schools. With more than 17,000 teachers, administrators and support staff, the district is also Pinellas County's largest employer.
The Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District operates 21 elementary schools, 5 junior high schools, 2 traditional high schools, 1 non-traditional high school, and 2 major sports fields. It serves the city of Bedford, Texas , most of the cities of Euless , Hurst , and small parts of Fort Worth , Arlington , Colleyville , and North ...