Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Cameron Park Elementary School as a middle school.
C.W. Stanford Middle School in the Orange County Schools district will see its name changed in the coming months.
The system’s Board of Education on Monday moved ahead with plans to shift the school from honoring Charles Whitson Stanford Sr., a long-time school board chairman for the district who served from 1941 to 1967. The school district dedicated the middle school in his honor in 1970 shortly before Stanford’s death.
The decision for change, which comes two weeks after the district unanimously approved to change the name of a middle school that honored a slaveholder, came with a 5-2 vote. School board members Will Atherton and Bonnie Hauser were the dissenting votes.