SANFORD — On Wednesday, the Maine Board of Education unanimously voted to approve the Sanford elementary school construction project. The $43 million, state-funded project, will provide an addition at Margaret Chase Smith School and renovations at the current Sanford Junior High School and Sanford High School facilities for an elementary school and a middle school, respectively.
The projects will be completed by summer 2020 at which time the School Department will close Lafayette and Willard schools and transfer those buildings and Sanford Veterans’s Memorial Gym to the city.
Completion of the project will mean Sanford will have three pre-K to grade four schools — the existing MCS, Carl J. Lamb School and a new central school which is yet to be named.
“Thank you to everyone involved in helping to get this project for our students and community, “ said Superintendent David Theoharides in a statement. “Together we have made this a reality.”
For more information about the project, check out sanford.org and click the school construction link.
Sanford voters will cast ballots on the project on June 13.
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