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Great story (with photos) from the West Seattle Blog on the progress of the new K-5 STEM school at Boren.  Looks good. Lots of window for natural light.  Because it had been used by older students, it has lockers (and cubbies from preschool days), computer lab  and science labs.  They also have a climbing wall in the gym.  Very nice.  And, somehow, they found money for a Smartboard for every classroom.  Hmmm.  On her horizon – the renovation of Fairmount Park Elementary, expected to reopen in West Seattle within the next few years, shuttered for five years, and getting a new roof right now, because, she says, the old one couldn’t wait any longer to be replaced. Number of students at our new STEM school? We asked SPS how many students are enrolled; no final count yet, the district says, but the building is being made ready to hold up to 250. From one commenter: The 250 limit has already been met per info we have received from th...

From the West Seattle Blog: Followup: Middle College HS, K-5 STEM will not share Boren West Seattle’s smallest public high school, Middle College HS , will not be sharing the Boren Building campus in Delridge with the new K-5 STEM elementary school after all – another location for MCHS has been found instead. That’s according to an announcement by West Seattle’s school-board rep Marty McLaren, confirmed by Seattle Public Schools spokesperson Teresa Wippel, though both say the new location cannot be publicly disclosed yet. West Seattle Blog has the scoop!

Rainier Beach High School is having an Open House and several school tour dates: Thursday, January 19th - School Tour from 8-9:30 am and Open House from 6:30-8p.m. Thursday, , February 9th - Tour from 8-9:30 am Thursday, February 16th - Open House from 6:30-8:30 pm Thursday, March 1st - School Tour from 8-9:30 am Thursday, March 8th - School Tour from 8-9:30 am For more info, please contact the Main Office at 206-252-6350. Also from SPS Communications: In response to strong enrollment growth in West Seattle, Seattle Public Schools will be opening a new elementary program for fall 2012: K-5 STEM at Boren. The new STEM program will be housed in the Louisa Boren Building (5950 Delridge Way SW). It will be a K-5 option program and will open with all six grades in September 2012. Family Information & Input Night: There will be a K-5 STEM at Boren information meeting on Wednesday, February 15 from 7:00-8:30 PM at Schmitz Park Elementary (5000 SW Spokane Street). I...