‘Beacon on a hill’: Staten Island charter school celebrates new building
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And the school, which serves about 800 students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade across two campuses in the neighborhood, and opened its state-of-the-art Sharpe Avenue location in September, is now poised to offer those opportunities for years to come.
“You are here today because throughout the years in some way you have been a partner with New World Prep,” Eugene Foley, the school’s president, noted during the ribbon-cutting ceremony, speaking to a room full of trustees and benefactors.
The new building, which replaced the former St. Mary of the Assumption Church, a former convent and former rectory, includes 36 classrooms, dedicated music, science and art spaces, playground areas, rooms for mandated special education services, a new media center/library, a gymnasium, a theater stage, cafeteria, administrative offices and more.
The main floor features a three-story-high atrium, with frosted glass windows on the ceiling. A botanical garden fills a main wall of the space, along with a large television that broadcasts school news and alerts.
Members of both the founding and present boards of trustees were present for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, as were representatives from the offices of state Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton; Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon; Councilmember Kamillah Hanks; and Assemblymember Charles Fall.
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