Goose Creek (Texas) district breaks ground on replacement elementary
The Goose Creek (Texas) District’s has broken ground on a new San Jacinto Elementary School in Baytown.
The $22.6 million elementary school will have 102,000 square feet of space and accommodate 800 students from grades pre-K to 5. It will have a media center, gym, playgrounds, multiple computer labs per grade level, and an outdoor learning center.
The new campus is just a few blocks away from the existing San Jacinto Elementary. To ensure the campus stayed a neighborhood school, the district worked with surrounding businesses to acquire the land necessary to construct the new school.
The project is one of the major components of a $335 million bond that the district passed in May 2019 to address rapid growth in the southeast Houston area. Goose Creek has projected that it will add more than 2,250 students over the next decade.
“The district is very excited to provide the children and families in this community a campus we know they will be proud of," says Brenda Garcia, Goose Creek's director of facilities planning and construction. "It will also be an anchor in a long-awaited revitalization project for the West Baytown neighborhood."
The architect is PBK, and the contractor is Marshall Construction.
Lockwood Andrews & Newnam is the program manager for Goose Creek's bond program.
