23 Sep 2003
Reilly Annex Elementary School Will House 800 students
DALLAS–Dallas Independent School District officials will be joined by neighbors and city representatives Tuesday, Sept. 23, for the groundbreaking ceremony for the second school to be built with funds from the 2002 bond program.
Superintendent Mike Moses, DISD Board of Trustees, City Councilman Gary Griffith and other community representatives are scheduled to hold the groundbreaking ceremony at 9 a.m. at the site of the new building, currently a park land, at 8939 Whitewing Lane.
"It gives us great satisfaction to break ground for the second school of the bond program," said Moses. "This is a moment the district has anticipated for many years. Building adequate schools, such as the new Arcadia Park and now Reilly, demonstrates our willingness to accept the responsibility we have for our children and the concern we have for their future."
Central to an established neighborhood, when completed in August 2004, the Reilly Annex Elementary School will be a two-story facility that will include a media center, cafeteria, gymnasium and specialized art and science classrooms. The 91,000 square-foot facility will provide 39 instructional classrooms for 750 to 800 students. The construction project will be managed by Jacob/Pegasus and built by Coronado Builders. Brown Reynolds Watford Architects Inc. designed the building.
The event marks the second groundbreaking for the district's historic January 2002 bond program. Approved by 78 percent of Dallas voters, the bond program is more than double the size of any other education bond program in Texas history. Twenty new schools will be built in the district over the next five years.