The St. Johns County School Board on Tuesday accepted a $59.4 million bid to build a new K-8 school in the northern part of the county.
In April, the school district decided to reject three bids to build the school because they came in too high and later reopened the bidding process.
Construction on the new school is now moving forward again after the district accepted the lowest bid from St. Augustine-based STG Contracting Group to build a new K-8 in the Shearwater neighborhood between County Road 210 and County Road 16. Two years ago, the district built the exact same model school for $37.2 million.
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