PSS tours reconstruction at Hopwood Middle School

Education Commissioner Dr. Lawrence F. Camacho and associate commissioner for Administrative Services Eric Magofna inspected last Friday morning the site of five modular school buildings for the largest middle school in the Commonwealth, Hopwood Middle School.

These prefabricated school buildings will each have five classrooms and are now ready to be set up at the site where several typhoon-damaged condemned buildings were finally cleared by the contractor responsible for clearing work. The modular structures are funded by the Public School System’s share of the American Rescue Plan Act.

With the assembly of the 20 portable and prefabricated classrooms expected to be completed before the August opening of the new school, Camacho has also said that the formal call for proposers for Hopwood Middle School’s reconstruction for new and permanent school buildings was already issued last Friday, May 31.

PSS RFP 24-028 was published publicly on Friday, formally soliciting competitive sealed proposals from individuals or firms interested in the “Hopwood Middle School Construction Project.”

“We at the Public School System are excited that both projects are now on schedule. As our students move to new, temporary but conducive modular classrooms this coming school year, it’s just a matter of time that the full reconstruction of a new Hopwood Middle School campus will commence. This will allow our students to continue to enjoy a safe learning environment,” Camacho said. (PSS)