Braintree School Committee Wants A New South Middle School

BRAINTREE, MA — The school committee unanimously voted on Monday night to send state school building officials a formal recommendation to build a new South Middle School behind the current building.

Previously, school officials explored building an addition on the existing school, so that Grade 5 could be moved from the elementary school to the middle school. But school committee chair Thomas Devin argued that a new school would be cheaper and could be built faster than renovating and adding on to the current school. Project architects told the school committee that renovating South Middle School would cost roughly $94.5 million to $96.1 million and take about two years to complete. A new school would cost between $87.6 and $90.5 million and could be built in about 18 months, architects estimated.

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