St. John’s prepares to expand

ATTLEBORO – St. John the Evangelist School plans to ceremonially break ground Sunday on an addition that will provide for more classroom and office space.
Principal Mary Jane Holden said the $1 million addition would create desperately needed space for the school’s 264 students in grades kindergarten though eight. The new space includes three classrooms, a first-floor reception office, a nurse’s station and a covered area outside for students.
Built in 1954, the original school no longer provides the space needed for today’s educational programs, Holden said. The library doubles as the music room, corridors host reading groups and a classroom doubles as a science lab.
“We just hope to be able to afford a better quality of education,” Holden said.
The private, Catholic school has already raised more than half the $1 million required for the project, Holden said. The school aims to raise the rest from private sources to avoid borrowing money from the Diocese of Fall River.
Holden says she expects construction to start in April – weather permitting – and for the project to be largely finished in early 2012.

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