Peterson Elementary Classroom Building Nears Completion

Crews work to finish up Peterson Elementary projects. (Marcia Schlottman, KCSD)

Klamath County School District electricians finishing up lighting; summer paint crew works on outside

Austin Tillery and Braydon Wright paint the outside of the new fifth-sixth grade classroom building at Peterson Elementary School. Tillery, a 2016 Henley grad, and Wright,a 2018 Mazama grad, work on the Klamath County School District’s summer painting crew. Tillery is studying civil engineering at Oregon State University and Wright plans to study fire science at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg this fall. (Marcia Schlottman, KCSD)

Work is nearing completion on the new classroom building at Peterson Elementary School. On Friday, Klamath County School District electricians spent the day installing lights in the new structure, which features six 980-square-foot classrooms and two restrooms.

Next, the district’s maintenance crew will finish staining the concrete floors and complete sidewalks outside the building. The summer paint crew is painting the outside of the structure.

The new permanent structure is replacing the school’s aging modular buildings. Once the classrooms are finished at Peterson, work will begin on new classrooms at Henley Middle School this fall (aiming to be finished by fall 2019) and Stearns Elementary the following year. Total cost, including demolishing the modulars, constructing the new buildings and installing new furniture at all three schools, is about $4.1 million. The school board approved a 20-year debt issuance in December 2016.

Steve Heryford, the district’s general supervising electrician, worked with district electricians James Chandler and Ken Bland Friday to wire the classroom building’s lights. After they are done at Peterson, the crew will install new lighting at Mazama High School.

The district has construction projects at 10 of its schools this summer.

Press release provided from the Marcia Schlottman, Public Relations, Klamath County School District.