Superintendent Marie Galinski will submit the statement which in turn will grant the city of Beverly authority to request state money for building projects in the school system.
Beverly City Council has been in discussion with the School Committee since late last year to organize the middle school population under one roof. The current proposal would see the discontinued use of the Briscoe Middle School, built in the 1920s on a small lot, and the expansion and renovation of Memorial on Cabot Street, which offers more potential.
“Beverly must renovate/expand its middle school. The current facility (Briscoe) cannot support educational objectives and 21st century learning and is failing structurally and systematically,”
a school committee representative told the Beverly Citizen.
Preliminary plans call for the Memorial School to be expanded so that the school can be divided into a lower middle school for fifth and sixth grade students and an upper middle school for the seventh and eighth grades. The building is currently home to the school district’s administrative offices. Blueprints showing options for the proposed expansion will soon be made available from Beverly Print companies.
Once Galinski files the statement of interest, the city’s committee will start the planning process in earnest with the School Building Authority to solidify a concrete plan for the new middle school.
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