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LONG BEACH, Miss. (AP) — The newest school in Long Beach already needs more room due to an influx of students.
WLOX-TV (http://bit.ly/1zrE3Pg ) reports Harper McCaughan Elementary has plans to start a $2.2 million expansion project for the school due to the amount of students. Principal Russ Badeaux says the building for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders is near capacity and expects to see 270 fourth-graders arrive in two years, about 40 more than the school normally gets.
The district is adding 11 new classrooms, three just for fourth-graders. Badeaux says there will be a multi-purpose room for the band and four classrooms for the academically gifted children and their teachers.
The school opened five years ago to replace the campus destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
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