Credit: Bristol Township School District
Bristol Township residents are invited to attend three public meetings on the proposed closing of the current elementary schools.
The meetings will feature administrators, teachers and members of the architectural and construction teams, Bristol Township School District spokeswoman Eileen Kelliher said.
- June 18, 6 p.m.: Buchanan Elementary School; For residents in the Buchanan, Washington and Fitch attendance areas
- June 18, 8 p.m.: Ralph W. Emerson Elementary School; For residents in the Emerson, Barton and Lincoln attendance areas
- June 20, 6 p.m.: Mary Devine Elementary School; For residents in the Devine, Lafayette and Maple Shade attendance areas
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All of the meeting will be held in the schools’ all-purpose rooms.
A district press release states each of the meetings will be one hour long.
Kelliher said the meetings are “due diligence” for the district before it can move forward on rolling out the proposed plan to construct three new, larger elementary schools to replace the current nine.
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The three new schools are each designed to house 1,300 students and would be divided into two sections. Kindergarten through second grade in part of the building and third through fifth grade in the other section of the facility. District officials said previously that the parking and student pick-up situation that plagues many schools is expected to improve with the new schools.
Click here to see renderings of what the new schools would look like
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The estimated $152.6 million facilities overhaul would close Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School; Neil A. Armstrong Middle School and the former Benjamin Franklin School, currently home to the district administrative staff, would be renovated for students. Harry S. Truman High School would not see any major work done and the administration would move to a re-purposed Clara Barton Elementary School.
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