Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
The Bristol Township School District is now planning to build a new 1,300-student elementary school at the site of Lafayette Elementary School instead of the Mary Devine Elementary School site in Croydon.
According to a statement from the district, a community meeting will be held at Lafayette Elementary School at 4201 Fayette Drive on Tuesday, August 6 at 6 p.m.
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The Bristol Township Zoning Board approved several variances in early July for the James Buchanan Elementary School on Haines Road and Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School on Mill Creek Road in Levittown, but the zoners denied the application for the Devine site because the plan used part of the 22-acre site’s designated floodplain.
Superintendent Dr. Samuel Lee said after the meeting he was a “bit surprised” the Devine application was rejected and stated that Lafayette was a possible alternative.
In the following days, district staff, members of the architectural and construction teams came together to work on options.
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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 are expected to 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 middle school students. Harry S. Truman High School would not see any major work done. Clara Barton Elementary School would be re-purposed into the administration and maintenance building.
A district press release states the meeting will be one hour long.
The meeting is not a Act 34 required hearing.
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More Bristol Township School District News:
- Bristol Twp. District Closes Buildings Early, 2 YMCA Camps Closed Friday
- Back to Drawing Board for Devine Site, Lafayette Still on Table
- 2 School Plans Approved, 1 Denied by Zoning Board
- Croydon Students Will Likely Be Displaced
- Bristol Twp. Schools Plan to Come Before Township Monday
- Tax Hike, Jobs Cuts Part of Approved BTSD Budget
- BTSD Budget: Some Cuts Off Table; Proposed Tax Increase, Layoffs Remain
