Major upgrades courtesy of a big cash infusion are headed to Sandalwood High School. The public school also got donations to take part in a big national celebration.
The total amount of money being injected into the school is $36 million, courtesy of a half penny sales tax in Duval County. Seventeen million dollars is going to add 21 new classrooms, and a new engineering lab.
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“On top of that, we’re renovating. The two practice fields out here, redoing the parking lots on the south side of the building and having a new way for traffic to get in and out of this facility,” school district COO Jim Culbert said.
“It shows that they’re investing in our future, kind of because of a really big project. They’re spending lots of money on us,” junior and hospitality student Caleb Fisher, 17, said…