CALGARY – Displaced students from a flood-damaged school are finally able to attend class in a set of brand new classrooms.
Twelve long-awaited modular classrooms built at Earl Grey School opened on Monday morning.
The portables will house some 200 students from Elbow Park School, after their facilities were destroyed during June flooding.
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The portables at Earl Grey cost $4.2 million to install and were originally supposed to open on September 9, 2013.
However, a four month delay forced the Calgary Board of Education to bus the students to Eugene Coste School, an unused school in Haysboro, while they waited for construction to be completed.
A $1.1 million dollar gymnasium at Earl Grey is still under construction.
“We’re hopeful that the gym facility will be available in the latter part of January [or] the beginning of February,” says Calvin Davies with the Calgary Board of Education.
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