Ground Broken for New School
Caltrans and Inglewood school officials held a ground-breaking ceremony this week for a new $2.7-million school that will replace Kew Elementary School, which is in the path of the Century Freeway.
The state agency has agreed to build the 14,000-square-foot school in a field next to Bennett Elementary School on South Cherry Avenue. The new Bennett-Kew complex, scheduled to be completed in August, 1991, will house about 1,000 students, compared to the 810 currently enrolled in the two schools.
Kew students will be moved to portable classrooms on the Bennett site within the next few months so that the Kew buildings on Yukon Avenue can be demolished, school district spokesman Maurice Wiley said.
Inglewood school officials entered into the agreement with Caltrans for the replacement school in 1986.
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