Abington SD presents updated middle school site and floor plans, timetable and soils testing measures

Abington School District officials and their architects presented an updated site plan and, for the first time, interior floor plans for a proposed new middle school at a recent board meeting, and answered questions about permits, schedule, budget risks from subsurface conditions and community access to materials.

"We're gonna locate that on top of where the existing tennis courts and the track are currently situated," Dan D'Amico, project manager with Schrader Group Architecture, said while walking the board through the updated site map. He described new synthetic turf multipurpose fields, an added softball field, relocated baseball fields and constructed wetlands near a stream to manage stormwater. D'Amico said existing play fields in the lower‑right of the site will remain unchanged.

The design separates parent and bus circulation, D'Amico said: most car traffic will use Susquehanna to Jericho with a loop for drop‑offs, while buses will enter from Highland through Tyler and use a dedicated bus loop on the north side. To address a speeding concern on the upper site drive, the team proposed reconfiguring the drive into an intersection with a three‑way stop to slow traffic and…