Heritage groundbreaking for K-12 campus

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Officials with East Allen County Schools broke ground on Wednesday morning on the Heritage Campus Project.

The project is expected to bring kids from Kindergarten through twelfth grade all into the same building. The project is part of the district's redesign plan.

Woodland and Heritage will become  K-12 campuses under the plan.

EACS School Board Secretary, Terry Jo Lightfoot talked about the advantages of having a K-12 campus.

"We're finding that when kids move from school to school they're grades and test scores drop because they're got new teachers, new buildings, new lockers, new cafeteria," she said. "The K through 12, keeping the kids in a smaller community has become a very popular thing back to the old one room school house, maybe it wasn't so bad."

Construction is set to be completed by May 2014.