Head
custodian Bruce Brewer looks down a hallway at Sherman Elementary School where
furnishings have been stacked to allow cleaning of classrooms. Teachers are
painting strips near the top of the walls in the hallways to add color
throughout the building. Mansfield
City Schools’ Raemelton administration building will be closed July 1-5 to
allow district maintenance and custodial staffs to complete annual cleaning and
repairs.
Raemelton
will reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, July 8.
Summer work
already is underway at all school buildings, where cleaning and waxing floors
requires moving classroom furniture into hallways.
Mark Ward,
maintenance team leader, said old wax is stripped from floors where needed
before new wax is applied. Furniture, light fixtures and window sills are
cleaned and any needed repairs are made to windows and doors.
At
Springmill STEM Elementary School, 1200 Nestor Drive, four classrooms are being
added. Two third-grade classrooms are being prepared to complete Springmill’s
expansion to a K-3 building.
Pupil
services director Jonathan Burras said pre-kindergarten classrooms at
Springmill are being increased from six to eight to better serve district
residents. The two additional classrooms are the first rooms in the science
galleries wing.
Before
students return on Aug. 22 Ward and his staff will set up classrooms for new
teachers or teachers reassigned to other buildings.