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By DAN SCANLAN It's basically a big muddy field on Bartram Springs Parkway right now, about 11/2 miles off Philips Highway and almost as far south as one can go in Duval County. In a year, the spot where Duval County's top school officials broke ground (mud?) Aug. 13 will become a new W-shaped elementary school on Bartram Springs Parkway. That means a school with room for about 800 students, giving the closest public school, Greenland Pines, a break from its current overcrowding. It also...