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Walter Porter Elementary School (a.k.a. Kennedy/Knox Area)
School opens: OPEN! Walter Porter Elementary (south) opened on January 17, 2006. Walter Porter Elementary (north) will open in January 2007.
Principal: Evva Cross
Status: Construction is completed on Walter Porter Elementary (south). Demolition and reconstruction has begun on Walter Porter Elementary (north), which is the former Kennedy Elementary campus.
Location: 4800 T Street, San Diego, CA 92113. Lincoln Park. The site is bound by Ocean View Boulevard on the north, T Street on the south, 47th Street on the west, and Gloria Street on the east.
Purpose: Walter Porter Elementary will ease overcrowding in the former Kennedy Elementary and Knox Elementary attendance area.
Acquisition and relocation: Not required.
Name of new school: The name "Walter Porter" was selected by the community in honor of a much-admired leader who served as president of the local NAACP, helped start the annual Martin Luther King parade and was founding Dean of Student Services for the Educational Cultural Complex in southeast San Diego.
Campus features: 26 classrooms, 44,345 square feet of facilities, 6.3 acres, 65 parking spaces, 67 new trees, hundreds of shrubs, a joint-use field for soccer and baseball, multipurpose room, library/media center, lunch shelter, elevator and accessibility features, kitchen, faculty lounge, workroom and administrative center. The campus will consist of all modular (factory-built) buildings with stucco exterior and metal roofing.
Project partners: Modtech, Soltek Pacific, R.J. Maus Architects
Project timeline:
•  Proposition MM approved: November 3, 1998
•  Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration: January 31, 2003 
•  Board of Education approves site: April 22, 2003
•  Contract awarded: December 14, 2004
•  Groundbreaking ceremony: January 27, 2005 
•  First day of school (south): January 17, 2006
•  Demolition/construction begins (north): January 2006
•  First day of school (north): January 2007
Media releases | Special eventsFact sheet 
Site map
Artist's rendering | Site layout
Final Mitigated Negative Declaration
Board of Education Report, April 22, 2003
 
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