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Show Page IB South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, September 5, 1984 6j , , i - . I ' v- -- - . .b u i A i i is u V) jt i r i I 4 I' ? APRIL ADAMS Review Staff FARMINGTON Over $6 million' in additions to 11 Davis County schools are complete or nearly complete for the opening of school this week. Enlargement of the facilities was necessary to handle, the countys rapid growth rate, said Bonnie U f : ddmi Hew Schools and Additions Gzeet Students 'i I ',!:rr should begin soon, and progress on the facility is ahead of schedule. Centerville Elementary has had 19 new classrooms, a new media center and a kitchen added to it to handle the communitys growth rate. Ms. Durrance called it an almost entirely new school. Four of the new classrooms are Durr-ancneeded to house students from two information officer for district schools until the Reading public the county school district. Last year, school is completed. But three of the it was reported by county planners classrooms will relocate at the Jenny that if the present growth rate conP. Stewart Elementary in Centerville tinues, by the year 2000, the populauntil the rooms are completed. tion will be over 300,000. Presently, Superintendent Lawrence Welling the countys population is, about said it was not known how long the 140,000. second and third grades classrooms These schools were designed so would have to attend the school unthat additions could be made to til the work was completed. them. We knew they were located in Students attending Centerville Eleareas of high growth. It is much mentary will also either have to cheaper to add six classrooms, than bring their lunches or purchase sack to build a new school, Ms. Durr-anc- e lunches at the school cafeteria until, said. the kitchen is completed. Again, The school district is the third Welling said it was not known when the kitchen would be finished. largest in the state with over 46,000 students and 1,674 teachers, she adLayton Elementary has had 21 ded, with 68 of the teachers new to classrooms and a kitchen added to the district: Included in the district it, costing approximately $2,1 mili 42 elementary schools, junior lion. Though the kitchen is not quite highs, and six high schools. the school lunch proThe additions may also reduce the completed, can provide sack lunches until gram high teacherpupil ratio. Since 1967, the work is finished. . Utah has had more students per North Laytpn ' Junior H igtj .teacher load than any' other state in the nation. Some teachers have as Schools new 13 classroom addition, any as 40 students in a class, with costing $840,000, is completed, she the average being about 26 students said. a teacher, she said. The required Syracuse Elementary students will lasses, such as English, always have have to bring their lunches for the higher ratio than specialty classes. first week or until the new kitchen is The new $2.3 million Lucile Readcomplete. The school lunch program can also provide brown bag lunches. ing Elementary School in north Centerville, the third elementary school , Whitesides Elementary in Layton' in the community, should be opened has a new completed media center about Feb. 8, 1985. Construction of and activity center, she said. The the facility, now 30 percent comproject cost approximately $368,000. South Weber Elementarys plete, has suffered from weather and water problems. Natural springs $304,777 completed enlargement were uncovered when excavating be- consists of six new classrooms and a gan, in addition to an unseasonable conference room. Bountifuls Adelaide Elementary amount of rain. However, interior construction received five new classrooms, a new e, - 1 1 I i u j 1 t 1 , . school this week will find, some changes to their school. The Davis County School District pushed through a massive improvement project this past summer. Consequently, MANY STUDENTS ENTERING media center, activity center and offices, Ms. Durrance said. The $724,000 project is completed except for the media center, which will not affect the opening of the school. South Davis Junior Highs new $230,000 cafeteria was ready for' school opening. Centerville Junior High Schools some students will have to bear with construction crews in certain areas, such as Layton Elementary (above), which are putting on finishing touches. ten new classrooms were also completed for school opening at a cost of $53 1,000. A sod playground area has also been completed for students at the Knowlton Elementary in Farming-toThe project was delayed for two years because of flooding problems, but" sod and fill dirt was taken from n. Kaysville Elementary to complete the project. for Kaysvilles The construction project will take place in the middle of October, said Welling. The building will have over 25 rooms, and the first phase should be completed by the next two-pha- se school year. |