Manchester School District offices at West High School.
Paul Feely/Union Leader StaffMembers of the Committee on Joint School Buildings heard an update Monday on the long-term facilities plan for city schools from staff with the architectural firm SMMA.
Wilson Elementary School will close in the fall and a new Beech Street Elementary will be built at the Beech Street site. The new school will be built in the same ward as the former Wilson Elementary School, and parents, students and staff will still be able to walk there.
As the school closure occurs, Wilson students will be split between Beech and McDonough while the Beech Street Elementary School is being built. Other district students in fifth grade at Beech, Green Acres, McDonough, Smyth, Webster and Weston elementary schools would be moved to middle school.
To avoid overcrowding, modular classrooms will be installed at Beech, McDonough, Parkside, Southside, McLaughlin and Hillside next summer while renovations and additions get started on Hillside and McLaughlin middle schools. Construction on Parkside and Southside middle schools will begin nine months later.
Phase One includes expansion work to make room for fifth graders in the city’s middle schools. Hillside Middle School will expand by 38,000 square feet, McLaughlin Middle School by 35,850 square feet.
Southside Middle School gets a 20,850-square-foot addition, Parkside Middle School a 40,350-square-foot expansion.
The plan mentions consolidating the city’s three public high schools into two, along with a magnet school for the arts. No decision has been made on a final location for these high schools.
SMMA has recommended Manchester Memorial High School as a site of one of the schools, the area near Gill Stadium as another, and either Manchester West High School or Manchester Central High School housing the magnet school site.
Years one through five of the Master Plan look like this:
September 2024
• Close Wilson Elementary School;
• Temporary classrooms added at Beech Street & McDonough Elementary Schools;
•Wilson Elementary students moved to Beech Street and McDonough;
• Bring Hillside and McLaughlin Middle Schools to fifth- to eighth-grade model;
• Temporary classrooms added at all four middle schools.
September 2026
Additions and renovations complete at Hillside & McLaughlin Middle Schools.
January 2027
Move into new Beech Street Elementary School.
September 2027
Additions and renovations complete at Parkside Middle School and Southside Middle School.
January 2030
Move into a new comprehensive high school.
Estimated costs for work in “Priority One” of the plan is $278-306 million.
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