EDUCATION BRIEFS
News fromMcKinney ISD
BY BROOKLYNN COOPER
DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTS MCKINNEY ISD Middle school students will have a new sport to participate in for the 2022-23 school year. The district’s athletics department announced in January that it will add soccer to middle school sports. The season will begin in the spring after track season ends. Like other middle school sports, soccer will have A and B teams at each campus to give more students the opportunity to play. “My husband and I paid for club soccer for years, so I’m glad to see that our middle school students will have an option for free soccer now,” MISD board President Amy Dankel said at a January meeting. MCKINNEY ISD Dowell Middle School is set to receive a new track this summer after approval from the board of trustees at a Jan. 25 meeting. Hellas Construction will resurface and restripe the track for $286,600, according to meeting documents. The project cost includes repair of the track, which is separating from parts of the concrete curb. Dowell was built in 1995, and the track was last resurfaced in 2009. The average lifespan of a track is 7-10 years, per board documents.
Shade structures to come to playgrounds MCKINNEY ISD The district’s maintenance department surveyed playgrounds last fall and noted schools that do not have shade struc- tures. We Build Fun will construct shade structures for the playgrounds with the goal of having all of them completed by the beginning of next school year, Chief Operations Officer Greg Suttle said at a Jan. 25 school board meeting. The project will cost just over $349,000, per meeting documents. Shade structures have a lifespan of about seven years, Suttle said.
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J. W. WEBB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SCOTT JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
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New countertops and cabinets New plumbing fixtures New interior paint and updated room signage Updated gym wall pads Updated campus security systems
Phase 1: Replacement of heating, ventilation and air conditioning fixtures; updated educational wing
Schools to receive updates
MCKINNEY ISD The district will update three campuses this summer after approval from the board of trustees at a Jan. 25 meeting. Refreshes at Burks Elementary, Webb Elementary and JohnsonMid- dle schools will start on the last day of school as part of the 2021 bond. Burks andWebb were last reno- vated in 2002. Both schools were constructed in the 1950s. Burks will cost a little more than $1.6 million to refresh, according to a partial cost estimate in district
documents. Webb’s upgrades will cost about $2.1 million. MISD’s operations department is aiming to present guaranteed maximumprices for all three schools to the board in February, Chief Operations Officer Greg Suttle said. JohnsonMiddle School’s refresh will take place in two phases due to the size of the school, meeting doc- uments stated. The first phase will start inMay. The second phase will begin in 2023. The partial probable cost of the upgrades is $4.7 million.
NEWSTRUCTURES
This summer, 12 McKinney ISD elementary schools will receive shade structures over their playgrounds.
• Burks • Eddins • Finch • Glen Oaks • Johnson • Malvern
• McNeil • Minshew • Press • Walker • Webb • Wolford
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