Ephrata School District proposes Grant Elem. replacement
Ephrata School District Superintendent Ken Murray walks through the portable classrooms located at Grant Elementary. As of this year, 40% of students spend most of their day in a portable classroom.
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Grant Elementary’s gym is also the school’s cafeteria. This year, the school has students eating breakfast in classrooms because they don’t have enough time to clean the space and transfer it back to a gym before the first class of the day.
A crack has started to form in the back hallway of Grant Elementary. Even though repairs have been made, it has managed to spread from one wall, through the floor and up the facing wall. The structural flaw has spread to a classroom which is beginning to droop in the middle. While it doesn’t present a safety issue now, it could develop into one.
Backpacks line the hallway at Grant Elementary. However, when it rains, buckets take over the hallways, catching rainwater seeping through the roof.
EPHRATA — Grant Elementary – an overcrowded, nearly 70‑year‑old school where more than 40% of students learn in portables – has become a driver behind the Ephrata School District’s $75 million February 2026 bond proposal to replace the aging campus, according to Ephrata School District officials.
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