Middle School Students at LP Get A Brand-New Home
At long last, Lincoln Park’s seventh and eighth graders finally have a dedicated space to call their own.
Housed in a former daycare center, the brand-new Middle School Building opened in mid-September. The fully refurbished facility, which the school purchased from its previous owner, Lincoln Learning Solutions, is now the home academic classes for LP middle school students from six different arts departments.
“This has been in the works for a long time,” assistant principal Melissa Potts-George told The SIREN, Lincoln Park’s school newspaper. “The thought of giving the middle school their own space” has been long discussed, Potts said.
Lincoln Park’s middle school program has continued to grow over the past few years, and even added a new track in Health Science this fall. However, it wasn’t until the former Prima and Four Mile day care center became available that LP officials found the answer to their expansion plans.
The Middle School Building, located at 1 13th Street in Midland, is just a few blocks from Lincoln Park’s main campus.
“We found this to be the perfect space because the classrooms were already here. There were the perfect number of classrooms, and it gave the middle school their own space where they can be middle school,” Potts-George told The SIREN.
Each of the classrooms in LP’s new Middle School Building has been completely refurbished.
Each morning, middle school students are dropped off at the building, where they take their various academic classes. In the afternoon, school buses transport them to Lincoln Park’s main campus, where they eat lunch and attend their arts classes.
The new building is fully staffed with administrators, a counselor, and a school nurse, as well as other support personnel.
On the first official day of class in the new facility, seventh-grade dance major Raelyn Salka from West Mifflin told The SIREN that she appreciated the cozy, freshly decorated space.
“I like how small it is,” Salka said. “It’s easy to navigate.”
