Credit: Bristol Township School District
The Bristol Township School District is set to hold a community meeting Tuesday night to discuss a proposal to 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.
Superintendent Dr. Samuel Lee said the meeting will start at 6 p.m.
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The meeting will feature administrators, teachers and members of the architectural and construction teams.
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The meeting comes less than a week before the plan to construct a new school at the site will come before the Bristol Township Zoning Board. The zoners 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 they denied the application for the Devine site because the plan used part of the 22-acre site’s designated floodplain.
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In days following the rejection, district staff, members of the architectural and construction teams came together to work on options.
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.
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Click here to see renderings of what the new schools are expected to look like
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.
More Bristol Township School District News:
- Lafayette to Replace Devine as Site of New School
- 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
