By Kalen Ponche
The Wentzville School District will make room for kindergarten students at Green Tree Elementary School in the fall by putting in two modular buildings behind the school.
The Lake Saint Louis Board of Aldermen on Monday unanimously approved a special-use permit that allows the district to install the two buildings, commonly known as trailers. The district will have to request a new permit every six months.
The buildings will provide the school with four more classrooms needed to accommodate full-day kindergarten. Children in older grades will be the ones who attend school in the modular units, however. The district already owns the modular buildings and will move them to the school this summer.
Parents of kindergartners encouraged the district to seek approval for the buildings so their kids wouldn’t have to go to the nearby Prairie View Elementary School for their first year of school.
The district will have to put in an emergency access road behind the school at a cost of about $75,000 to meet fire codes, according to Kari Monsees, chief financial officer for the district. Green Tree Elementary is the only school in the district without an access road.
