The school that will occupy this vacant lot will be ready for students in the fall of 2012.
/ Tonya Brown
FLORENCE -- A school that will eventually relieve overcrowding at two Florence elementary schools is now under construction.
School officials held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for the Relief School, as it's being temporarily called, on Hoffmeyer Road.
The school will help relieve overcrowding at Carver and Delmae elementary schools.
Carver has nearly 1,000 students and Delmae has about 800.
Neither school is designed to hold that many.
"We have 17 mobiles outside. So as this school comes into place, it's going to help us in terms of relieving the number of children that we have at Delmae," said Roy Ann Jolley, Delmae's principal.
The new school will house at least 900 students.
Construction should be finished in December with students expected to move into the school by the fall of 2012.
