New year, new digs
After waiting for two years, two District 20 schools are starting the 2012-2013 school year in their newly designed buildings.
The Bay Ridge Elementary School for the Arts, P.S. 264, which houses kindergarten through fifth grade, has been operating out of the Community Education Council District 20 offices on 89th Street since 2010. This year the school which was planned to help ease overcrowding at P.S. 104 at 92nd Street and Fourth Avenue — will move into the brand-new building at Fourth Avenue and 89th Street.
P.S. 310, which also houses kindergarten through fifth grade, has been overcrowded and incubating in a building at 62nd Street and Fourth Avenue. Students and staff will finally move into their new, spacious school building at 62nd Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. P.S. 310 was designed to help reduce overcrowding at P.S. 69, at Ninth Avenue and 63rd Street, a relatively new school that was already over capacity by the time its doors opened.