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COUNCIL BLUFFS — The students at Rue Elementary School are getting ready for the big move.
On Friday, the last day of school before the holiday break, the children will pack up their pencils and notebooks and move from 3326 Sixth Ave. to the Ninth Avenue School at 2912 Ninth Ave.
They’ll start their second semester Jan. 4 at that school, which will be renamed Rue on Ninth Avenue for the interim.
When they go back to the original Rue in August for the start of the 2010-11 school year, they will see the results of a $2.8 million renovation.
Rife Construction of Omaha has started work, but the major reconstruction has had to wait until students and teachers move out.
The Rue project calls for more classrooms, an elevator and handicapped access and upgrades to fire, electrical and telephone systems.
Rue is the first elementary school to undergo a comprehensive renovation under a plan to update the district’s aging buildings by 2015. Rue on Ninth Avenue will provide 16 classrooms for students from Rue and other schools set for renovation.
Mike Bell, the district supervisor of purchasing and transportation, has said that the goal is “to take old buildings and make them 21st century, state-of-the-art facilities.”
The work will be funded through a statewide 1-cent sales tax.
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