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Classroom
space tight
at schools
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The School Board is considering which of the three alternatives for expansion to recommend at their November meeting.
In the meantime, the building principals are studying the proposed plans for additions to the buildings to make certain they will meet the needs of the schools.
Last Tuesday consultants from Baughan and Baukhages architectural firm in Luray presented their findings oil/Various alternatives to members of the School Board and Board of Supervisors.
They had been asked to study long range trends in enrollment and to estimate costs for solving space needs with modular classrooms, additions to the two school buildings, and a new middle school.
Consultant Lowell Baughan said as a temporary measure the elementary school could meet its space needs with seven modular classrooms at a cost of $284,900. This would still leave five classes being taught in the three modular class. rooms now at the school and eight classes being taught in divided rooms that were formerly three regular classrooms and the teachers’ lounge.
Mr. Baughan said the high school is not yet short of space. However, it is already difficult to find rooms to use for study halls.
He said in four or five years the high school will be needing additional classrooms and estimated that nine modular units to be used as classrooms would cost $366,300. The total cost for modular units at both schools would be $651,200.
Mr. Baughan noted that before putting in modular classrooms, the school system must notify the state education department that they are temporary. He added that modular classrooms are usually put close to the school on level ground that is the
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