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OCS Approves River Park Elementary and Orange Middle to Replace Cameron, Stanford Namesakes
The Orange County Schools Board of Education approved new names for two of its schools on Monday night: River Park Elementary School and Orange Middle School.
Both names passed in a single, unanimous vote by the school board. The new names update the schools known as Cameron Park Elementary School and C.W. Stanford Middle School. Renaming the two schools is part of a 14-step strategy outlined in a recent school board policy to improve how the district addresses racial inequities, intolerance and academic disparities.
The board voted on several names proposed by a School Renaming Committee, formed earlier in the year to determine the best online submissions from the Orange County Schools community. The committee, made up of 18 people, met six total times and first presented the name options to the board on June 9.
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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.