By Anna Skinner

Construction will begin for a new elementary school in the Hamilton Southeastern School District this fall. It is expected to be completed by July 1, 2019. A name for the school has not been deteremined. The HSE School Board will name the school.

The school will replace 35 portable classrooms in the HSE district and allow more space for students through Fishers’ growth. Harry Delks, HSE School District director of facilities, said the new school will accommodate approximately 700 students for kindergarten through fourth grade. It will be across from Cyntheanne Park, near Cyntheanne Road and 126th Street.

The cost of the new school is capped at $22 million from a previous referendum.

Delks also touched on a few other construction projects under way in the district.

“We are currently renovating Cumberland Road Elementary School and expanding the Central Office,” he stated in an email to Current. “The total cost of this combined project is a little over $19 million. The completion date of this project is fall of 2018.”