Tennent High 'Mostly Open' After Structural Concerns

WARMINSTER, PA — A day after engineers investigated perceived structural problems in the building, William Tennent High School is now "mostly open" for activities, school officials have announced.

In a message to the school community, Centennial School District officials said that about 20% of the school remains off limits and engineers will shore up some problems in an abundance of caution.

"Our engineering team has fully reviewed the situation.," system officials said in the message on the system's website. "While the need for remediation may not be imminent, in the abundance of care, we elected to provide reinforcement (now) to eliminate any possible risk, and we are actively working with the construction team to remediate the potential problem areas."

Remediation work will start on Thursday, Aug. 22, officials said. The problems were discovered late on Friday, Aug. 16.

School officials "fully expect" to hold the scheduled first day for teachers on Aug. 27 and first day for students on Sept. 3 as planned. Most classrooms and office and activity space is already accessible, they said.

The following activities will take place as scheduled on Tuesday, school officials said:

• athletics
• marching band
• student parking passes
• a scheduled National Honor Society meeting.

Moving forward, sports and marching band programs will be held as scheduled.