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To kick off a $38.4
million renovation and addition project, Madison Middle School will
hold a groundbreaking ceremony on the last day of this school year.
More than 100 students will join Interim Superintendent Raj Manhas,
Deputy Seattle Mayor Tim Ceis, and Madison Principal Jill Hudson in
the ceremony. The Madison Band will perform.
The completed project, which was planned using a community-based
design review process, will comprise 120,000 square feet on 7.9
acres, and will accommodate 800 students in grades six through
eight. Students will move into the new school in the fall of 2005.
For the next two school years, Madison staff and students will
relocate to the former Louisa Boren Junior High at 5950 Delridge
Way SW.
The groundbreaking ceremony marks the first major school
reconstruction project initiated under the Building Excellence II
levy, a $398 million program approved by Seattle voters in February
2001. The Madison renovation is one of 17 projects to be funded
under the levy, which also provides for renovation, renewal and
enhancements at six secondary schools; permanent facilities to
replace portables at four south end elementary schools; replacement
of Brighton Elementary School; renovation of the South Shore
Building to house The New School; and facilities for the Secondary
Bilingual Orientation Center.
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