New CR middle school

[Serenity4cy]

I heard CR School District is proposing the idea of building a new middle school near Ushers Ferry Road and Highway 100 on NE side. This is supposed to replace Harding Middle School (built in 1965).

Anyone from CR familiar with this and/or have any insight or thoughts? Both Harding + Taft are the newest of the six CR middle schools. The other four (Franklin, McKinley, Wilson, and Roosevelt) were all built in the 1920s.

CRCSD has been under fire lately. New Superintendent not well received.

 

[IANDFAN]

They are building in that area because that is where the district is expanding. Man the older school are really cool structures with a lot of history. I wish they could be renovated instead of torn down. McKinley has a lot of Grant Wood stuff inside of it.

 

[cigaretteman]

Cedar Rapids schools purchases 51 acres to build future northeast middle school

Land previously owned by Cedar Rapids’ first female surgeon Dr. Joan Tauke and her husband Donald

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