{"id":52135,"date":"2022-01-29T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52135"},"modified":"2022-01-29T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:47:23","slug":"new-lehigh-schools-name-could-be-edison-baseballs-clemente-or-lehighs-founder-ratner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/01\/new-lehigh-schools-name-could-be-edison-baseballs-clemente-or-lehighs-founder-ratner\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lehigh School\u2019s name could be Edison, baseball&#8217;s Clemente or Lehigh&#8217;s founder Ratner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lee School District has advanced six possible names for a new school&nbsp;in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Seal-of-the-School-District-of-Lee-County-1024x585.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Seal-of-the-School-District-of-Lee-County-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Seal-of-the-School-District-of-Lee-County-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Seal-of-the-School-District-of-Lee-County-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Seal-of-the-School-District-of-Lee-County.png 1325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;list includes inventor Thomas Edison, baseball great and humanitarian Roberto Clemente,&nbsp;the Spanish word&nbsp;for Sunrise, and Lee Ratner, the man credited with founding Lehigh Acres.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction on the new elementary school, now known as &#8220;Elementary School J,&#8221; off Sunrise Boulevard in&nbsp;Lehigh is&nbsp;expected to begin in late March. The school district prefers that a new school have a name before construction begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step in choosing a permanent name for Elementary School J will be to&nbsp;send out a survey asking the community to rank the six recommended candidates from first to sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal is to put a recommendation before the school board &#8220;in order to have a name by the time we break ground in late March,&#8221; Stillwell said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six finalists for Lehigh Acres &#8220;Elementary J&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunrise Elementary School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roberto Clemente Elementary School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Ratner Elementary School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Edison Elementary School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amanecer Elementary School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerald Gould Elementary School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee School District has advanced six possible names for a new school&nbsp;in Lehigh Acres. The&nbsp;list includes inventor Thomas Edison, baseball great and humanitarian Roberto Clemente,&nbsp;the Spanish word&nbsp;for Sunrise, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[1060,1059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52137,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52135\/revisions\/52137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}