{"id":309994,"date":"2026-05-11T07:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:35:21","slug":"liberty-point-lions-chosen-for-new-k-8-in-lincoln-village-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309994\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Point Lions chosen for new K-8 in Lincoln Village 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Placer County news chyron frame grab still placeholder.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"Placer County news\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Western Placer Unified School District has chosen a name for its new K-8 school in the Village 7 area of the Liberty at Lincoln development.<\/p>\n<p>District  school board members approved the name Liberty Point Lions after discussion at Tuesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The new school, located at the southwest end of Ferrari Ranch Road, is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpusd.org\/our-district\/initiatives\/construction-school-improvements\/new-liberty-at-lincoln-tk-8-school\">expected to open in the 2030-31 school year<\/a>, according to district officials.<\/p>\n<p>A<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wpusd.community.highbond.com\/document\/9529a65a-fc90-492f-90bd-c0603cd99c8d\/\"> slideshow presentation provided to the board Tuesday night<\/a> said the word \u201cLiberty\u201d reflects the partnership among the district, the city and the developer.<\/p>\n<p>The district said it conducted community outreach through the parent communication app ParentSquare, the district website and social media platforms Instagram and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Engagement opportunities included open submissions for school names and mascots, community voting and ongoing reminders across platforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to the presentation, 56,202 community members viewed the outreach efforts and 1,584 survey responses were submitted. Respondents submitted 49 possible school names and 37 mascot options.<\/p>\n<p>The top five school name finalists were Liberty Grove, Liberty Junction, Liberty Oaks, Liberty Point and Liberty Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>The top five mascot finalists were coyotes, lions, owls, patriots and wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Survey respondents ranked Liberty Point and Liberty Ridge as their top school name choices, paired with either lions or coyotes as mascot options.<\/p>\n<p>The district said it also consulted with the city of Lincoln and Lewis Group of Companies during the process.<\/p>\n<p>District officials initially recommended the name and mascot combination Liberty Point Coyotes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the presentation, the recommendation was based on the school\u2019s geographic identity, regional recognition, the mascot\u2019s adaptability and age-appropriate appeal, positive stakeholder feedback and long-term branding considerations.<\/p>\n<p>However, the board ultimately voted to adopt lions as the school\u2019s mascot on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SAC_0021_PK_20260121_BUSS.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nicole Buss\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Placer Unified School District has chosen a name for its new K-8 school in the Village 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-309994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}