It Would Cost Too Much To Renovate Former Valley Road School Building, Princeton BOE Rules

Princeton, NJ -- The Princeton Public School Board of Education says it would cost too much money to change the former Valley Road School building back into a school, Planet Princeton reports.

The Spiezle Architectural Group has determined it would cost a few million dollars for the necessary renovations, according to the report. The district paid the group $18,400 to conduct the study, and may ask them to do another study exploring the best way to use the existing space within the district.

The district had been looking at the possibility of moving administrators currently housed in the former school building to the building currently used by the Princeton Packet on Witherspoon Street.

The district has explored a number of options, including a possible bond referendum to fund capital improvement projects including the construction of a new school, to address its growing population.

The increases throughout the district’s elementary schools and the middle school are related to new residential developments on the former hospital site at Avalon Bay, and Princeton University’s Merwick-Stanworth on Bayard Lane.

District policy calls for no more than 25 students in elementary school classes, and 30 students in classes at schools above that.

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