New 681-Seat School Building Coming To Medgar Evers College Prep

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A new five-story building will soon replace portable classrooms at Medgar Evers College Preparatory, bringing a new gym, science labs and 50,000 square feet of space to the campus.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that the City University of New York, School Construciton Authority and Department of Education had partnered together to build a new 681-seat building at the Crown Heights campus, set to open for the 2025 school year.

The building will replace eight transportable classroom units that students had been using next to the main Carroll Street building.

“When we talk about rebuilding a fairer and more equitable city, education is at the forefront of that vision,” de Blasio said. “Thanks to this groundbreaking effort, our students will have the resources they need to grow and proposer as future leaders of our city.”

The eight portable units, provided by CUNY, will be demolished before construction will start on the new building in 2022. Design for the new facility will start next spring, officials said.

The building will have 22 classrooms, four science labs, a resource room, supervisory office, staff conference room and space for bike storage.

It is also set to include a competition-sized gymnasium with locker rooms for high school use and 50,000 square feet of space to be used by CUNY. Medgar Evers College, a senior CUNY college, is found just a few blocks from the college prep high school.

“This project has been a long time in the making. I am excited for the Medgar Evers College Prep family and the community at-large that we will soon have the much-needed modern facility that has been so desperately needed,” Assembly Member Diana C. Richardson said. “...Just imagine a space where both teachers and students are able to excel because they are in well-lit, clean, spacious, heated and air-conditioned classrooms.”

Watch the full press conference here: