In November, school district and city officials gathered outside Eastside High School to announce a $49 million renovation of the long-deteriorating building.
But at a recent school advisory board meeting, district officials unveiled a plan to replace the school, which opened in 1929, with a new campus.
The estimated cost: $105 million.
What changed?
The proposal is an amendment to a long range facilities plan already approved by the state’s Schools Development Authority (SDA), which is funding improvements to Camden schools.
Under the original plan, approved in December, two district schools — Yorkship Family School in the Fairview section and Veterans Family School in East Camden — were to be razed and replaced with new schools.
The proposed amendment calls for Yorkship to be rebuilt at cost of $60 million. Veterans would still receive “substantial renovations,” the district added.
