Construction set on Youngstown’s Bunn school

By HAROLD GWIN

VINDICATOR EDUCATION WRITER

YOUNGSTOWN — Construction is about to begin on the latest project in the city school district’s rebuilding program.

The school board has awarded contracts totaling more than $8.2 million for the new Paul C. Bunn Elementary School at Sheridan Road and Sequoya Drive in Boardman Township.

The total project cost is expected to reach about $9.5 million.

The site is within the Youngstown city school district. In Ohio, school boundaries are independent of municipal boundaries.

Youngstown is replacing or remodeling/expanding 14 buildings at a total cost expected to be around $182 million, with the state picking up 80 percent of eligible construction costs.

Eight of those projects have been completed.

The former Bunn Elementary at Sheridan and Sequoya, named for a former city school superintendent, was razed two years ago as part of the rebuilding effort, and a new 56,000-square-foot building is being built at the same location.

Pupils have been attending classes at the former Jackson Elementary School on Windsor Avenue in the city since the razing.

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