NY Officials Break Ground on Staten Island School
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 11/01/19
New York officials broke ground on a new $77 million four-story school building in Staten Island on Oct. 29, reported the Staten Island Advance. Construction began in July on property that was occupied by a former storage warehouse. The school is expected to serve more than 750 students in Pre-K through fifth grade when it opens in the 2022-2023 school year.
“This will be a massive infusion of classroom space, more than we’ve seen on the North Shore in years,” Councilwoman Debi Rose said. “It will help alleviate our overcrowding. That’s a big problem in the North Shore schools, and it will give our students a better opportunity to learn with the amenities and the resources that they need.”
The new facility will include four pre-K classrooms, four kindergarten classrooms, 20 standard classrooms for grades 1-5, reading and speech resource rooms, three district special education classrooms, eight District 75 classrooms that provide special education services to students with disabilities.
The school will also feature:
- A computer classroom;
- Art classrooms;
- Gymnasium;
- Playground;
- Full kitchen complex;
- Library;
- Guidance and medical suites;
- Science resource room;
- Music room;
- Exercise room;
- Administrative suite;
- Conference room;
- Teacher work room; and
- A parent community room.
Construction is being done by Leon D. Dematteis Construction Corporation.
About the Author
Yvonne Marquez is senior editor of Spaces4Learning. She can be reached at ymarquez@1105media.com.