GIBSON CO., IN (WFIE) -
While Princeton High Schoolers are already well situated into their brand new high school building, school officials are hard at work remodeling the old one.
Renovating the old school building is just the first step of a long range goal the North Gibson School Corporation has.
Walls are coming down inside the old Princeton Community High School building. This area will eventually become a series of classrooms for grades three to five.
"We're updating all the technology," said Clerk of Works Scott Stenftenagel. "That includes installing wireless access points, new voice and data connections all new electrical circuitry and things like that."
When this area is complete, sometime next Spring, crews will turn their attention to remodeling the second half of the building, which will eventually house grades six to eight.
It's part of a long range goal.
"Eventually, at some point in the future, we'd like to have all our students K-12 here on one campus," said superintendent Brian Harmon.
Currently, half of the kindergarten through second graders and the middle schoolers go to school downtown.
Harmon says having all the students on one campus would have many benefits.
"In transportation, in shared staff, energy efficiency, savings, in time as well as money and be more convenient for parents as well," he said.
The new campus will be called the North Gibson Learning Campus.
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