Five New Year-Round Schools Open for 2006-07

Five new year-round elementary schools opened this year, increasing the number of year-round schools in Wake County to 20 and the year-round capacity above 17,000 students.

Barwell Road , Brier Creek, Carpenter, Holly Grove and River Bend elementary schools opened Monday, July 10. All five schools will serve students in kindergarten through fifth grade and have a bell schedule of 9:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

By operating on a multi-track calendar, year-round schools can hold 20-33 percent more students than a traditional-calendar school because at any given time one of four groups of students is on break.

New Schools
Barwell Road Elementary in southeast Raleigh opens as the largest elementary school in the school system. The school is a reused (prototype) two-story design, also seen at Forestville, Cedar Fork, Carpenter and Harris Creek elementary schools. Through a partnership between the school system, City of Raleigh and Wake County, the campus will boast a community center and a community park. This will provide the school two full-size gyms and classrooms, as well as two future fields and nature trails beyond the usual elementary school program. The school is 99,387 square feet, has another 40,473 square feet for the community center, and will serve 700 students the first year.

Brier Creek Elementary is the only school located between I-40 and US 70 in northwest Raleigh in the rapidly growing Brier Creek area. The school is a reused design, also seen at Baileywick and Jeffreys Grove elementary schools, and will be used again. Brier Creek represents a partnership between the school system, City of Raleigh and Wake County to provide a community center and a community park. This will provide the school a full-size gym and classrooms beyond the usual elementary school program. The school covers 90,747 square feet, with another 17,179 square feet devoted to the community center, and will serve 500 students its first year.

Carpenter Elementary in northwest Cary is now home to elementary students. The facility served as a ninth-grade center for Green Hope High from 2004-05 through 2005-06. Carpenter is a re-used design, also seen at Forestville, Cedar Fork, Barwell Road and Harris Creek elementary schools. The 87,395-square foot campus will serve 560 students its first year.

Holly Grove Elementary opens as an “early start” school in a wing of the new Holly Springs High, while the permanent school is built on the site adjacent to the high school. Holly Grove is opening a year earlier than originally planned to help provide needed classroom seats in this growing area. Students and staff will move together to the permanent building for 2007-08. The school will serve 500 students its first year.

River Bend Elementary in North Raleigh is opening two years early in the temporary modular campus on Spring Forest Road that Harris Creek students occupied last year. In its temporary location, the 48,107-square foot school is made up of seven modular complexes. A modular complex consists of multiple factory-built units bolted together, similar to a classroom wing in a traditional school building. The campus has a multipurpose room, cafeteria, media center, office space and small play areas in addition to four eight-classroom complexes. Students and staff will move to their permanent site near the intersection of Perry Creek Road extension and US 401/Louisburg Road for the 2008-09 school year. The school will serve 560 students its first year.

August 2006
Four new high schools will open on the traditional calendar in August: Holly Springs High and Panther Creek High, as well as two schools that are part of the high school redesign effort: Wake Early College of Health and Sciences and the East Wake High School of Integrated Technology.

 

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