EGUSD to Break Ground at Future Site of New Marion Mix Elementary School

The following is a news release from the Elk Grove Unified School District: 

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, the Elk Grove Unified School District will break ground to mark the construction of the District’s 40th elementary school – Marion Mix Elementary School.  

The site is located at 4730 Laguna Park Drive, Elk Grove.  The groundbreaking ceremony begins at 8:30 a.m. and will include comments from EGUSD Superintendent Dr. Steven M. Ladd, EGUSD Board President Chet Madison, Sr. and Elk Grove historian and educator Elizabeth Pinkerton.

EGUSD’s newest elementary school is named for Marion Mix, a 1922 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley in 1922.  The decision to name the school after Mix was made by the District’s community school naming committee.  Mix was hired to teach science at Elk Grove Union High School in 1924, becoming the first woman to teach science in Elk Grove. Her long career extended into the 1950’s as a teacher and substitute. She was also an active member of the Elk Grove community.

Marion Mix Elementary School will be a multi-story school which will support the full program for a K-6 elementary school on a site that, at 8 acres, is only 80 percent of the size of a typical elementary school site. Classrooms, library, school office space and other support and instructional areas will be housed in a two-story building, reducing the building footprint for these facilities. Kindergarten and multipurpose facilities will be housed in two separate structures. The project includes a total of approximately 75,000 square feet of building area. It is anticipated that the school will welcome its first students in the fall of 2015.