May 29, 2025
Leesburg’s Beverly Shores Elementary School Breaks Ground on Major Modernization Project
By Kyle Coppola
Leesburg’s Beverly Shores Elementary School Breaks Ground on Major Modernization Project
LEESBURG, Fla. — Excitement echoed across the Beverly Shores Elementary School campus earlier this week as students, staff, and community leaders gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off a massive modernization project.
The long-anticipated overhaul will include the removal of aging modular units and the construction of a brand-new, state-of-the-art site-built learning center. The upgrades are designed to better serve the school’s students and staff for generations to come.
“Are you excited to get this project started?” Principal Cindy Christidis asked a crowd of students at the event. Their enthusiastic cheers left no doubt that they were.
(Beverly Shores Elementary Principal Cindy Christidis has been instrumental with pushing the school to be the best it can, including some of the highest test scores in school history. Photo Credit – Lake County Schools Communications Dept.)
Joining Christidis at the ceremony was Lake County School Board Chairman Tyler Brandeburg, who praised the school’s recent academic success and emphasized the importance of investing in the future.
“Beverly Shores did amazing on their test scores this year, and I am really excited that we are going to be rewarding the hard efforts of the teachers and students with a much-needed modernization of the campus,” Brandeburg said. “Give us some patience as we do this over the next few months, and I know the end result is going to be something you guys will be very proud of.”
(Lake County School Board Chairman Tyler Brandeburg envisions a bright future once the project was finished. Photo Credit – Lake County Schools Communications Dept.)
School board members, faculty, and students all took part in the symbolic first dig, with golden shovels lifting the first clumps of dirt to mark the start of construction.
As part of the modernization effort, Beverly Shores Elementary will be temporarily closed for the 2025-2026 school year. Students will be relocated to the Old Fruitland Park Elementary School campus, which will serve as a temporary home for one final academic year. The plan is for students to return to a newly transformed Beverly Shores campus in the 2026-2027 school year, pending construction progress.
(Students of Beverly Shores Elementary took part in the groundbreaking ceremony. Photo Credit – Lake County Schools Communications Dpt.)
The transition comes as the nearby NEW Fruitland Park Elementary School has recently opened its new campus. It’s a beautiful facility and something to be proud about.
With the future of Beverly Shores Elementary looking bright, we look forward to following along and seeing the finished product in the coming months ahead.
Photo Credit – Lake County Schools Communications Dept.
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
