A judge struck down Florida’s controversial order requiring schools to open for in-person classes this month — calling the provision “unconstitutional” as COVID-19 continues to spread in the Sunshine State.

The Monday ruling stems from two lawsuits, one from Orange County and another from the statewide teachers union, challenging the order issued by Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

“The order is unconstitutional to the extent it arbitrarily disregards safety, denies local school boards decision making with respect to opening brick and mortar schools, and conditions funding on an approved reopening plan with a start date in August,” Judge Charles Dodson of Leon County Circuit Court wrote in the order, according to the report.

The order could also put teachers in harm’s way, as they’re “being told they must go back into classrooms under extremely unsafe conditions,” Dodson added.

The attorneys who filed the suit called the ruling “historic,” praising it for removing “handcuffs” from the local school board.

“All of our clients believed forcing schools to reopen based upon an arbitrary deadline of August 31, 2020, without proper local control, was certain to lead to devastating health consequences for our entire State,” lawyers Jacob Stuart and Billy Wieland said in a statement to the Sentinel.

The state filed an appeal Monday afternoon, with Corcoran arguing that he and other state leaders are “100 percent confident we will win this lawsuit,” according to the report.

Corcoran said 1.6 million students ― more than half the state’s public school enrollment — have opted for in-person classes this school year.

He called on families and teachers who want to return to brick-and-mortar schools to contact the union and “tell them to drop this frivolous lawsuit.”

During hearings last week, about half of the state’s 67 school districts opted for in-person lessons, the paper reported.

For that reason, the ruling’s impact could be minimized if district leaders are reluctant to back away from the in-person option they offered to parents — thousands of whom selected it.

At Orange County’s coronavirus briefing, Superintendent Barbara Jenkins said, “Our board has not had time to digest nor to discuss [the ruling].”

The ruling grants local districts the power to decide whether schools should be open for in-person learning or operate with an entirely virtual model, WESH reported.

Many Florida districts have already re-opened for in-person classes, according to the station.

And during hearings last week, about half of the state’s 67 school districts opted for in-person lessons, The Sentinel reported.

For that reason, the ruling’s impact could be minimized if district leaders are reluctant to back away from the in-person option they offered to parents — thousands of whom selected it.

Meanwhile, across the Sunshine state, 559 primary and secondary school-related coronavirus cases had been recorded between Aug. 10 and Sunday, according to a Monday morning health department report obtained by The Florida Times-Union.

An additional 1,351 cases related to elementary, middle and high schools were reported between March 1 and Aug. 10, the outlet reported.

The majority of those cases — 68.2 percent — occurred in staff members, according to the report. The most affected age group ranged from 45 to 54 years old.

Overall, a total of 605,502 coronavirus cases and 10,580 deaths have been reported in Florida, according to the latest numbers.