The home of the 19th elementary school in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan district has been selected: a slice of land at the corner point of Apple Valley, Rosemount and Lakeville.
At a special meeting Tuesday, the school board gave permission for administration to start a purchase agreement for a 22.4-acre parcel on the south side of County Road 46 and west of Diamond Path. The board still has to approve the agreement before it's finalized that the new school will open there, slated for fall 2017.
The district is working on a purchase agreement for a 22.4 acre slice. Image courtesy of Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan schools.
This site "has the best location to serve the area of current overcrowding and growth" in the district's south-central part, the district's director of finance and operations Jeff Solomon said in a district release. The new school would ease the overcrowding at Parkview Elementary and other nearby schools feeling the effects of the move to full-day kindergarten and more school-based preschool options.
Solomon said he aims to prepare the purchase agreement by the March 14 board meeting.
The school is being built out of the $130 million of capital improvements passed by voters in the Nov. 3 bond referendum.
