The Board of School Directors toured the ongoing renovation work at Independence Middle School this week, which included touring the completed office and guidance suite as well as checking-in on the construction work in the sixth-grade wing.  Those classroom spaces and Large Group Instruction are expected to be completed in early November.  At that point, the seventh-grade classes on the second floor will move down to into the new rooms so the contractors can start renovating the seventh-grade rooms.  This $42 million project, renovating and modernizing the entire IMS building, is expected to be completed at the end of the 2023 calendar year.  We look forward to a new building with all new mechanical systems, windows, finishes, and a 21st-century library and STEAM spaces.  To see it when it is all done, you will think we built an entirely new school!