Monday, February 16, 2009
WARREN — The third of five new city school buildings will open Wednesday on Willard Avenue Southeast.
Willard K-8 is the second of the district’s four new K-8 buildings to open, the first one being the Lincoln K-8 building on Atlantic Street Northeast, which opened at the start of the 2007-2008 school year.
The new Harding High School opened for start of the 2008-2009 school year.
District employees worked over the weekend to complete the move from the two former buildings — the Devon K-2 site at 833 Central Parkway S.E. and the 3-5 and 6-8 grades sites at East, 1470 South Street S.E. (just south of Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital).
A dedication ceremony and open house for the new building, which will house about 1,100 students, will be held later. Public walk-throughs of the two closing buildings will be scheduled in the spring.
The last two K-8 buildings, McGuffey on Tod Avenue Northwest, and Jefferson on Fifth Street Southwest, are expected to be open in 2010.