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Gallery: Inside the new Foster School ahead of its grand opening
['Jack Baker', 'Editor In Chief']
The Daily Northwestern
Later this month, about 360 students will arrive at the Foster School, the city’s first newly constructed public school in more than 60 years.
The school’s opening fulfills a decadeslong push to restore a neighborhood school to Evanston’s historically Black 5th Ward.
According to an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 news release distributed Thursday, the “nearly 80,000-square-foot school can serve approximately 600 students and over 40 teachers and other staff in 24 classrooms.”
The district will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the school, located at 1600 Simpson St., on Friday at 3:00 p.m.
The ceremony is open to the public and will include remarks from district and community leaders as well as guided building tours.