St. Tammany Schools To Start Construction Projects At Three Schools

Madisonville Elementary, Mandeville High School and Covington High School are getting some much needed TLC. The St. Tammany Parish School Board will accept close to $28 million in construction bids for the work.

Over $14 million plans to be allocated to Mandeville High. The project includes a three-story building which will add more than two dozen classroom, labs, office space and more. A new HVAC system will be added along with additions to the school’s locker rooms. Thompson Construction Co. will head the work. Mandeville High will be able to get rid of 28 of their on-site modular buildings.

Madisonville Elementary will be given $13.35 million with the work being done by Voelkel McWilliams Construction, LLC. The work will include new classrooms, a new gymnasium and an expansion to the cafeteria. Thirty modulars will be removed from the school.

Covington High School will be getting more handicapped accessibility which will be completed by CDX Construction, LLC. The project will cost approximately $167,000.

St. Tammany Schools will also be getting new text books. A $3.4 million dollar contract will include science text books for students across the parish. McGraw-Hill will publish science materials for kindergarten through fifth grades, sixth grade and eighth grade, and high school physical science, anatomy and physiology. Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt will provide environmental science and chemistry I materials, Pearson will provide environmental science AP, biology I, II and AP, chemistry AP, physics, physics AP and forensic science and Goodheart Wilcox will provide health sciences I and II.

These three schools have seen a huge spike in student population in the recent years and will greatly benefit from these projects.

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