Hoboken (N.J.) district looks to build a $241 million high school on site of existing stadium

The Hoboken (N.J.) district is looking at plans to transform the John F. Kennedy stadium into a $241 million high school. 

District voters will decide in January whether the district should move forward with the plans, reports NJ.com. 

The plans call for the high school to be erected on the location of JFK Stadium. The existing high school would be converted to a middle school, and the existing middle school building would become an elementary school.

The new high school facility would be four stories tall and would accommodate about 1,200 students.

The school would have 27 general classrooms, 11 specialized labs, eight science labs and six special education classrooms in addition to a culinary arts classroom, two art rooms, a theater arts and set design shop and a media classroom and IT lab. 

Students would also have access to two gyms, a year-round ice hockey rink, two outdoor sheltered tennis courts, a competition-sized pool, a wellness studio and an occupational and physical therapy room. A turf field on the roof would have a six-lane track.