A $2.11 million classroom-addition project at Caledonia schools is on track for completion before students return to classes in the fall.
The money will add four new rooms to Caledonia High School, four new kindergarten rooms at the elementary school and 3 1/2 rooms at the middle school The half room will serve as an in-school suspension room.
Conn Construction started on the project this past summer and is scheduled to be finished by July 15. With the elementary and middle schools near complete, the contractor is on par to meet the deadline, despite rainy weather.
“According to the contract, they are not allowed any weather days, but they are almost complete with the middle school and elementary school. All they really lack is the high school,” said Neil Waggoner of JBHM Architects. “I don”t see that they”ll have a problem completing it.”
Additions at the elementary school are about 95-percent complete; the middle school is about 85-percent complete, and the high school is about 50-percent complete, Waggoner said.
“They”re supposed to be ready for school in the fall,” he added.
In addition to the classroom additions, Conn will resurface and restripe the parking lot, from the high-school gym to the football stadium, re-sod and create new curbs and sidewalks.
“When we”re through it”ll look like a nice, clean campus,” Waggoner said.
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