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WORCESTER – With students and staff out of the building as of last Friday, the final few days for South High Community School are at hand.
From Monday until June 18, the school department will be stripping the Apricot Street facility of its remaining salvageable items, from tables and chairs to athletic trophies and other mementos.
The district will then sever power to the building after June 18, and turn the school over to its contractor for demolition, according to Superintendent Maureen Binienda.
At that point, the school system will officially be dependent on completion of the new South High, which is under construction just feet away from the old school, in time for the start of the new school year in late August.
WORCESTER For the first time in more than a year, the city’s elementary and middle schools returned to full-time, in-person learning Monday.
The School Department, meanwhile, is also planning for the next target date, May 17, when high schoolers are scheduled to go back to five days a week of in-person learning.
Monday, at least, went “great,” according to Superintendent Maureen Binienda.
“There were no big issues that I know of,” she said.
She credited the smooth transition to Worcester’s monthlong acclimation to hybrid learning, which began for most students March 29. Under that model, students went to school twice a week, and received remote education the rest of the time.