(From the Joplin R-8 School District)
Temporary School Locations Announced
Joplin Schools' Board of Education approved temporary facility location moves today at a special board meeting for all schools affected by the May 22 tornado. The Operation Rising Eagle facilities plan will be effective immediately with the leasing of facilities, remodeling and necessary preparations to begin the 2011-12 school year on August 17, 69 days from now.
As previously announced, incoming 9th and 10th grade students will attend Memorial Education Center. Memorial Education Center was built in 1896 and has been used continuously since then as a school. In 2009, Memorial Education Center underwent a renovation to upgrade the existing building. Memorial is currently a home for district programs and support services.
Shopko Campus at Northpark Mall will transform into the upper high school location for incoming 11th and 12th grade students.
Franklin Technology Center students will begin the school year at the 4th and Grand Campus.
East Middle School students (incoming grades 6th to 8th) will begin the school year at the Crossroads Industrial Park, located at Highway FF (32nd Street) and Jasper County Road 190 (Prigmore Avenue).
Irving Elementary students (incoming kindergarten to 5th grade) will move to the Washington Campus, 1112 East Second Street.
Duquesne Elementary School students will join the students at Duenweg Elementary School for the 2011-12 school year. School administrators made this decision because the separate cafeteria and gym location will enable ease in scheduling. In addition, the Duenweg property, which includes nearly six acres, can accommodate modular classrooms if needed.
Emerson Elementary students will begin the school year at the current Duquesne Campus, 1301 South Duquesne Road.
Early Childhood and Pre-K students will move to the McKinley Campus, 610 South Forest Street.
The current Roi S. Wood Campus (Administration Building) located at 1717 East 15th Street will be renovated for students currently attending Beacon and the FLEX program.
Administration, Technology, Parents as Teachers and the Copy Center will move to the former Missouri Department of Transportation Campus at East 32nd Street.
All locations are current facilities that will be remodeled and ready for students to begin the 2011-12 school year on August 17.
The May 22 tornado damaged or destroyed 10 facilities and caused roughly $151 million in damage to Joplin Schools' facilities.
3 comments:
I'm really glad they have found a place for everyone to go, but I really don't think this is going to work at all! For example, how are the freshmen and sophmores going to make it to the Franklin Tech. and musical classes? Are they going to separate the fine arts classes? There are lots of glitches in the plan.
Cayley, the band director says that the 11th and 12th graders will be bused over to Memorial to practice, adjustments will be made, this is an unusual plan because it is an unusual time.
Although, I don't see how the Mall is a good place for a school. But who knows, I have been wrong before.
Thanks, Denton. That seems like a better plan, and I totally understand that unusual times call for unusual circumstances, but next year is definately going to be interesting, especially with classes being bused all over town and some being held in the mall.
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