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Home / Discover SDoL / Facilities / School Construction / Smith-Wade-El Project

Reconstruction

Former James Buchanan Elementary School

Buchanan Elementary students can watch their new building go up behind their existing school. The new $21.6 million, 61,000 square foot building is being constructed on district land near Wheatland Middle School. The new Buchanan Elementary is scheduled to open in Summer 2021.