Walk Halls Of Swampscott's Stanley School One Last Time

SWAMPSCOTT, MA — Both recent and past alumni of Swampscott's Stanley School are invited to walk the halls of the elementary school once more this month before the school is closed for good.

A pair of "Memory Lane" strolls open to the public are scheduled for June 22.

"Everyone is invited to take a walk down memory lane," Swampscott Public Schools said. "Come for a visit, walk the halls, and visit classrooms, before we lock the doors one last time."

There will be an afternoon and evening tour event with the afternoon walk from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and the evening walk from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The school will soon be permanently closed to make way for the town's first new elementary school in nearly 70 years.

Swampscott voters in October overwhelmingly approved a $98 million debt exclusion for the K-4 twin elementary school at the current Stanley location. Sixty-five percent of the 4,200 voters who cast a ballot were in favor of the new school.

That vote came almost exactly seven years following the rejection of the last elementary school project that would have replaced the fourth-oldest group of elementary school buildings in the state.

Hadley Elementary was built in 1911, Stanley was built in 1929 and Clarke was built in 1952.

The proposed new school is designed to hold up to 900 students.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)