Ellsworth, Dexter school projects given OK
Bangor Daily News, January 11, 2008
(excerpts) The state Board of Education has approved school construction projects in Ellsworth and Dexter that each will involve consolidating smaller schools into larger buildings.
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SAD 46’s Dexter Elementary School project will cost $30,587,000. The state will contribute $29,905,000 toward its construction and the local share will be $562,000.
The pre-kindergarten-through-grade-eight school will be located off Fenn Road in Dexter. It will be on a 50-acre site that was formerly part of the Finn Farm, a family farm that has been part of the community for more than a century. When completed, the school district will close two smaller schools in Dexter and elementary schools in Garland and Exeter.
The Dexter Middle School has 235 pupils, Dexter Primary School has 287, the Exeter Consolidated School has 49, and Garland Elementary School has 79 pupils. When the new school is completed, SAD 46 will be left with three school buildings: Dexter High, the Tri-County Technical Center and the new consolidated school.
The two-story building will have separate wings for younger and older students, with pre-kindergarten through second grade in the first-floor wings and third- through eighth-graders in the upper wings. It will be heated with wood chips with an oil furnace serving as backup. Seventy-three percent of the district’s voters approved the project in a March referendum.
Design and bidding documents are expected to be completed by the end of January. The project is expected to go to bid in February and construction is scheduled to begin in April. The 115,000-square-foot school is designed to hold 800 pupils and is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in June 2010.
(excerpts) The state Board of Education has approved school construction projects in Ellsworth and Dexter that each will involve consolidating smaller schools into larger buildings.
...
SAD 46’s Dexter Elementary School project will cost $30,587,000. The state will contribute $29,905,000 toward its construction and the local share will be $562,000.
The pre-kindergarten-through-grade-eight school will be located off Fenn Road in Dexter. It will be on a 50-acre site that was formerly part of the Finn Farm, a family farm that has been part of the community for more than a century. When completed, the school district will close two smaller schools in Dexter and elementary schools in Garland and Exeter.
The Dexter Middle School has 235 pupils, Dexter Primary School has 287, the Exeter Consolidated School has 49, and Garland Elementary School has 79 pupils. When the new school is completed, SAD 46 will be left with three school buildings: Dexter High, the Tri-County Technical Center and the new consolidated school.
The two-story building will have separate wings for younger and older students, with pre-kindergarten through second grade in the first-floor wings and third- through eighth-graders in the upper wings. It will be heated with wood chips with an oil furnace serving as backup. Seventy-three percent of the district’s voters approved the project in a March referendum.
Design and bidding documents are expected to be completed by the end of January. The project is expected to go to bid in February and construction is scheduled to begin in April. The 115,000-square-foot school is designed to hold 800 pupils and is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in June 2010.
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