High school construction begins in Elizabeth, N.J.

News release: The New Jersey School Development Authority and the Elizabeth School District have broken ground on a new Academic High School in Elizabeth. The 183,822-square-foot, four-story facility, designed to educate nearly 1,100 students, will be constructed on a 1.54 acre site adjacent to the existing Jefferson High School. The new facility will contain 36 regular education classrooms, eight science labs, eight small-group-instruction classrooms, five self-contained special-education classrooms, an auditorium, cafeteria and full-service kitchen, a gymnasium with lockers and showers as well as an auxiliary gymnasium and a media center.