The Department of Education has completed design plans to construct a new elementary and intermediate school on Webster Avenue, according to spokesman Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld, who says the project should be completed by 2014.
PS/IS 177 will house approximately 640 students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Brooklyn-based Arnell Construction Group will construct the building at 2177 Webster Ave. between 204th and 205th streets.
The new school should help, at least in part, to relieve some overcrowding in School District 10, one of the most crowded in the city. A report published by the City Comptroller’s office last September said that primary schools in the area operate at 112 percent of capacity, while intermediate schools are at 103 percent.
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