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Temporary Placement Found For Students of Fire-Damaged Plainfield School

The Plainfield Memorial School was damaged by fire on Aug. 15 and repairs are expected to take months.

Students of the fire-damaged Plainfield Memorial School will be temporarily placed at the former Killingly High School during repairs, according to a letter sent to the community Monday.

School officials were searching for a temporary school building for more than 300 fourth-grade and fifth-grade students after a fire damaged the Plainfield Memorial School last week.

Repairs are expected to take months and the school is not slated to reopen until December. In the meantime, the Killingly school district offered up space in a section of their school administration complex, the former site of Killingly High School.

Plainfield Memorial students start later than the rest of the district – students and parents will attend a School Welcome event from 3 to 5 p.m. on Aug. 30, and the first full day of school will be Aug. 31. The rest of the district is slated to start on Aug. 29.

Students will be assigned to the same classrooms and buses they would have had at Plainfield Memorial. Special transportation will be provided to students who need it.

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