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North Carolina District Completes New Elementary School

  • By Matt Jones
  • 12/09/25

The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) in Holly Springs, N.C., recently announced that construction on a new elementary school has finished, according to a news release. Rex Road Elementary School measures in at 133,000 square feet and is the fifteenth school that general contractor Balfour Beatty has completed for the district. The new school has the capacity for 800 students in grades K–5.

“We know the pressure our school systems are under as communities grow,” said Jeff Sandeen, president of Balfour Beatty, Carolinas. “At Balfour Beatty, our role is to be our client’s steady partner by showing up, listening and building the planned facilities that students and teachers need to succeed. Rex Road Elementary is one of those projects where we all worked together to achieve the same goal and the results speak for itself.”

Rex Road Elementary will feature amenities like classrooms, a learning commons area, gymnasium, cafeteria, and media center, the news release reports. The new school was built to address district needs regarding overcrowding and a growing population.

Balfour Beatty has been working with WCPSS since 2007 to deliver projects like Southeast Raleigh Elementary, Green Level High School, Lynn Road Elementary School, and Pine Hollow Middle School, among many others. Ongoing projects with the district include additions and renovations at Athens Drive Magnet High School; additions and renovations at Ligon Road Middle School; and the construction and relocation of Wake Early College of Information & Biotechnologies and Parkside Middle School into a single, 230,000-square-foot facility, according to the news release.

About the Author

Matt Jones is senior editor of Spaces4Learning. He can be reached at [email protected].

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