Those numbers allow the school to facilitate the academic schedule and academic offerings as it wants. “We really feel like 3,155 students, and having 240 kids per class is probably the sweet spot number,” Newton said. Newark Charter has finished expanding, he said. The school will pay an interest rate of 3.297%. “It’s kind of like taking out a mortgage,” Newton said. Delaware doesn’t fund capital projects for charters.
The junior high and primary-intermediate connector was paid for with a 30-year bond issue facilitated by the state, but no state money was used. The McIntire Campus, a 21-square-acre space where students in grades nine through twelve attend school, is about a five-minute drive from the new intermediate area. In between the Meece Campus and the new junior high school is a 150-seat outdoor pavilion, a fitness trail, a playground, basketball courts, and a regulation-size soccer field that can be used for field hockey, football practice or other events.
The high school area is called the McIntire campus. The junior high area doesn’t yet have a formal campus name. The intermediate and primary buildings make up the Meece Campus, named after founding director, Gregory R. The 28,000-square-foot, three-floor primary school opened in 2007 and serves kindergarteners, first grade and second grade. The 56,000-square-foot, three-floor intermediate school that is home to grades three through five opened in 2003. It will allow the kids in the two schools to share a library and more, Newton said. The $20 million for the junior high also paid for a 28,000-foot connector between the primary and middle schools. A view of the Newark Charter campus as seen from its new junior high building.
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