By DANA RICHIE
Oakland Beach School is moving out of Oakland Beach next year.
For the 2023-24 academic year, the school will be housed at the former Gorton Ju8nior High School which also serves as school department administrative offices.
The move is necessitated by major renovations to the elementary school.
Steve Gothberg, Director of Capital and Construction Projects, said that the HVAC system at Oakland Beach was “not going to make it through another winter without major problems and the potential for failure,” so immediate intervention was necessary.
“When we determined that the system wasn’t going to make it, we had to scramble because we can’t have a school and have the kids in it with no heat,” Gothberg said. “You can’t take the chance that you put the kids in and hope that the system won’t fail. You have to plan ahead.”
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