LPSB to build three new schools
Carencro Heights Elementary, Prairie Elementary, and Lafayette High will get new campuses.
and last updated 2021-05-19 23:19:36-04
LAFAYETTE, La. â Carencro Heights Elementary, Prairie Elementary, and Lafayette High schools are all getting new campuses.
The decision was made on Wednesday at a special school board meeting. Funding for the projects was included in the district s Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget, which the board also approved Wednesday.
Board member Justin Centanni, representing District 6, says the money is already assigned to each project, and now each school will be assigned an architect to start outlining the future of each of the schools.
Kitchens at 16 Lafayette Parish schools that are not air-conditioned could see that changed by next semester, after the Lafayette Parish School Board awarded contracts for the projects Wednesday.
With a slight majority vote, the board approved assigning contracts for mechanical engineering services to two companies ADG Engineering and M&E Consulting, with the schools split between two phases.
ADG will work on Phase 1, which includes Acadiana High, Carencro Middle, Ovey Comeaux High, Katherine Drexel Elementary, J.W. Faulk Elementary, Myrtle Place Elementary and Woodvale Elementary.
M&E will do Phase 2, which comprises Broadmoor Elementary, Broussard Middle, Evangeline Elementary, Judice Middle, Lafayette High, Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary, Ridge Elementary and Truman Early Childhood Education Center.