KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Dozens turned out to break ground at the new El Sol Magnet School in Kalamazoo Township Tuesday afternoon.
Here’s Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Darrin Slade
The $54 million construction project will take two years to complete at 12-acre former site of the old Brucker Elementary School on Baker Drive off East Main Street, which closed 45 years ago.
The curriculum offers an English and Spanish emersion program, so of course the presentation was both languages.
That’s principal Natalie Wilson, who says students will continue instruction at their current site on Vine Street until the new building is finished.
KPS facilities director Karen Jackson says it will be the first school in the district that could be the home away from home for some students for a full decade.
She says there is no way they could have added the extra grades or provide the kind of amenities they are planning at the current location in the Vine neighborhood.
The new school should be welcoming students in the fall of 2028.
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