Rhode Island gets new Catholic school for first time in more than 40 years
Nov 17, 2009 11:39 AM
From The Providence Journal: The new Immaculate Conception Catholic Regional School has opened its doors in Cranston, R.I., the first time in more than 40 years that a new Catholic school has been built in the state. The school cost $9.5 million and includes students in pre-kindergarten to grade 8. It serves 355 students from all over the state. Officials say the school it replaces, the Cranston-Johnston Catholic Regional School in Garden City, needed significant repairs and could not be renovated for less than $5 million or $6 million.
SEPTEMBER 2009....from The Providence Journal: The Immaculate Conception Catholic Regional School in Cranston, R.I., is the first new Catholic school in the state in 42 years. The 46,000-square-foot facility has a 200-seat theater, a 3,000-square-foot library that will hold 7,000 volumes, a computer center, three art galleries, a middle school science center and kindergarten and pre-kindergarten rooms that have their own entrances to the parking lot.
