CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Kanawha County Board of Education approved Thursday spending more than $980,000 on installing portable classrooms at Elkview Middle School.
Most of those funds – around $576,000 – will go towards financing the installation of three portable classrooms destroyed at Elkview Middle in the June 2016 flood.
Herbert Hoover High School students have been attending Elkview Middle on a split schedule, as their school was destroyed in the flood. Clendenin Elementary School students have been sharing classroom space at Bridge Elementary because of the flood.
According to Briana Warner, director of communications for Kanawha County Schools, installation of portable classrooms started this week.
Warner said the portable classrooms at Bridge Elementary should be useable by the end of spring break.
“While students are out for that week, they do plan on moving furniture into those, and hopefully have students starting in those new portables when they come back,” she said.
Spring break will begin April 7. Students will return April 17.
Warner said construction at Elkview Middle has been impacted by the discovery of gas lines. Utility lines will have to be extended, and taller pylons will have to be placed for classrooms.
“It’s not affecting the schedule on those portables,” she said.
Those units should be ready by the end of April.