CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A community effort to stop the Brevard County school district from potentially closing a school had a big gathering on Tuesday afternoon for their cause.

Over the last couple of months, Cape Canaveral Community Correspondent James Sparvero reported how Brevard Public Schools is thinking of merging two elementary schools because those schools are only about half-full.

During a town hall-style meeting at city hall, concerned parents of the 270 students who could be relocated from Cape View Elementary to Roosevelt Elementary, seven miles away in Cocoa Beach, spoke before the Cape Canaveral city council and BPS superintendent Dr. Mark Rendell, who was in attendance as well.

[WATCH: Cape Canaveral leaders oppose elementary school closing]

“So, for his school to be

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