BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) – The Manatee County School Board is now accepting name suggestions for a new K-8 school currently being built east of Uihlein Road.

School name nominations must include the name of the person submitting the name nomination, along with their email address, phone number, or both.

Nominations for school names can be submitted in the following ways:

Send nominations by email to: [email protected]

Send nominations by post to:

Manatee County School District

PO Box 9069

Bradenton, FL 34206-9069

Please submit nominations personally to:

Miller School Support Center

215 Manatee Ave. W., in Bradenton

Name nominations for the East County K-8 school will be accepted from Wednesday, August 28, 2024, through Friday, September 27, 2024.

The School Board will then post the list of submitted name proposals on its district website on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. The School Board will then discuss the list of names at a regularly scheduled School Board meeting on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at which a list of finalists will be selected.

The school board is scheduled to select the name of the new K-8 school at its regular meeting on Tuesday, October 22, 2024.

Public comments on the name nominations are welcome at all School Board meetings and workshops in September and October 2024.

There are rules and regulations for the names of schools. Names should be reserved for people who have made a difference in the community. These rules include:

• If the school(s) are to be named after their location in the community, the proposed name(s) should be descriptive and of appropriate length.
• If the school(s) are to be named after an individual, the name(s) should be of an outstanding living or deceased civic or educational leader of local, state or national importance who, if still living, is also an elected official and has been retired from public office for at least five (5) years.
• The name of a new or existing school(s) adopted by the Board shall be considered permanent. However, should the Board subsequently initiate or be requested to consider a name change of an existing, previously named school(s), the Board shall, in such event, allow a period of at least six (6) months from such date for community involvement, consultation, discussion and debate before taking any action.

Any District employee so honored must not have been employed by the District for at least five years prior to the selection of his or her name for a plaque or facility naming. An individual may be nominated if he or she has been retired from the District for less than five years, but approval must be ratified by a majority vote of the Board of Directors.

Information about the school naming process can be found on the school district’s website at www.manateeschools.net under “District Top Stories.”

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