By Kyle Coppola
New Fruitland Park Elementary Slated For January 2025 Opening
FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. — A new chapter in Fruitland Park’s educational history will begin in January 2025 with the grand opening of the brand-new Fruitland Park Elementary School. The state-of-the-art facility will replace the aging elementary school that has served the community for over 50 plus years.
(Crews work on the new lobby entry way for Fruitland Park Elementary.)
Located on a sprawling modern campus, the new school is designed to enhance the learning environment for students and staff with upgraded classrooms, advanced technology, and expanded recreational facilities. The new building is expected to provide a significant improvement in both capacity and amenities, ensuring that local students have access to a high-quality educational experience in a safe and innovative space.
We’re excited to see this beautiful, new facility which will provide students with the best possible environment to learn and grow. This school represents the future of education in Fruitland Park, and we can’t wait to see how it positively impacts our students and community.
(This wil be a content area and coaches office room.)
Meanwhile, the existing Fruitland Park Elementary School will temporarily serve a different purpose in its final potential year of operation. In the 2025-2026 school year, the building will house students from Leesburg’s Beverly Shores Elementary School while their campus undergoes a major renovation. The renovation at Beverly Shores is part of a broader district effort to modernize local schools, with construction expected to last the entire academic year.
(This is what a typical classroom will look like. The windows are big and will provide plenty of natural light into the classroom which is designed to reduce energy. This type of design is very popular and modern right now.)
The transition plan will allow Lake County School’s to make necessary improvements at Beverly Shores while minimizing disruption for students and staff. By utilizing the old Fruitland Park Elementary facility, this willl ensure the students are not in a construction zone during the modifications to Beverly Shores.
The construction of the new Fruitland Park Elementary School comes as part of the district’s long-term infrastructure plan, which seeks to address overcrowding and aging buildings across Lake County. With the population continuing to explode in our area with new families moving to Lake County daily this was very much needed. The new school will feature advanced safety measures, energy-efficient systems, and flexible spaces designed for modern teaching methods.
(The new cafeteria will be very spacious and provide students and faculty with a nice gathering area.)
(A new central hallway leading to classrooms and the cafateria.)
(This will be a first grade classroom. Note the big windows and the amount of light that is let into the classroom.)
The January opening will mark the end of an era for the old Fruitland Park Elementary School, which has educated generations of local children. Its temporary role in supporting the Beverly Shores renovation will likely be its final use as an elementary school. We are unsure about the future plans for the old Fruitland Park Elementary school as of now but plans should be announced in the near future.
An official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Fruitland Park Elementary School has not yet been announced, but students should be set to begin classes in early January.
Photo Credit – Fruitland Park Elementary and Lake County School’s
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.
