School site plan approved

The location of the new school is in bold on the right side of the drawing. Spring Street is at the bottom, and the old Castleton School is in the top left corner of the drawing.



The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board will soon be building a new school on the grounds of the current Castleton Public School.

One of the final preliminary steps was passed at Cramahe Council on October 6 when Mayor Marc Coombs and Chief Administrative Officer, Christie Alexander, were given approval to sign a site plan for the school which is expected to cost close to $7 million.

The new two-storey school will have one entrance off Cemetery Rd. for buses and two entrances off Spring St.

The school will contain two science classrooms, four kindergarten rooms, a computer lab, a library, and a gym with a stage. An elevator will connect the two floors, making the entire building accessible.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new school will be held October 19 at 1:30 p.m.

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board (KPRDSB) awarded the contract on August 27, 2009 to build the new school which is scheduled to open in September, 2010. The $6,790,000 contract, awarded to Tass Contractors Inc. came in significantly higher than the estimated cost of $4.8 million.