CENTERVILLE — By the 2009-10 academic school year, elementary students in western St. Mary Parish will be attending a new school that will be located in Baldwin.

Those students will come from Baldwin, Charenton, Glencoe, Four Corners, and Sorrel. But before then, the St. Mary Parish School Board must put some finishing touches on the project.

School Board members will start Thursday night when they consider a final bid from B.E.O. Contractors for Raintree Elementary School when they meet at 5 p.m. at the central office complex in Centerville.

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Raintree Elementary is expected to be 72,000 square feet with 34 classrooms that will be filled with about 600 students who attend Baldwin Elementary, G.W. Hamilton Elementary, Mary Hines Elementary, and Thomas Gibbs Elementary schools.

During Thursday’s meeting the School Board also will consider the builder’s risk insurance relative to Raintree Elementary School construction.

According to its agenda, the School Board will consider the transfer of $1.5 million of general funds previously designated for future capital projects.

In other business, the School Board will:

Acknowledge and recognize Nathalie Hughes, a fifth-grade student at LaGrange Elementary School, Diana Tran, a fifth-grade student at J.S. Aucoin Elementary School, and Heather Verret, an eighth-grade student at Berwick Junior High School, as October Students of the Month.

Consider a proclamation to declare Oct. 15-19 as National School Lunch Week.

Consider the personnel change list.