Last night in a 7-0 vote the Lee County School District voted to turn the Beach School property over to the Town of Fort Myers Beach to allow the town to pursue a Charter School. If the town signs the agreement, a 4-month clock starts ticking to initiate a plan to build the Charter School.
The proposal, detailed below, must now be voted on and signed by the town council. They meet again on Monday at 9AM. What’s important to note is that, while the school district would be responsible to help the town, to a certain extent financially, paying to get the current structure open or build a new building would be entirely up to the town and the town’s taxpayers. No money is coming to the town in this agreement to turn over the property.
The kids from the beach school have been attending Heights Elementary since Hurricane Milton in 2024. It’s unknown how many elementary aged kids currently live on the island…