A ‘classy’ ambience

WARREN — As Imani Wills tried to describe her new school, the word “amazing’ kept coming up.

“It’s like going to a private school,” the Warren G. Harding High School 11th-grader said. “It makes you feel rich and classy.”

Imani, a member of two school choirs, was talking about the new $44 million high school, which opened its doors Sept. 2 and was the site of Sunday’s dedication ceremony and open house. Construction of the school at 860 Elm Road N.E. began in June 2006.

Hundreds filled the cafetorium for the half-hour ceremony that featured school and elected officials lauding the new high school that houses roughly 1,700 students in grades nine through 12. The three-hour event also included informal tours and an open house.

Among the amenities the facility offers are studio space for a student television network, a competition-sized swimming pool, special-education services and a full-size media center.

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