School board yet to pick location for new Bonita high school

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla.- Dozens of people attended the Lee County School Board’s meeting Wednesday afternoon discussing two possible locations for the new Bonita Springs high school.

With nearly 50,000 residents, many Bonita Springs residents say it’s time the city had its own high school.

The first proposed location is about 76 acres off Imperial Parkway and would cost $7 million to develop. Some residents who objected to the site say there’s already too much traffic there, and that it’s not the place for a school.

“This site in the middle of all of these residential developments is inappropriate. It would disturb all the residents between traffic, noise, safety concerns, pollution, night lights at football games and soccer games, teenage drivers in the neighborhood,” said Charles Yanni.

The second option is the 67 acres off Bonita Beach Road, east of I-75, which would cost about $14 million to develop.

The school board is supposed to pick a site in the coming weeks or months.

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