Today the new La Xara school opened its doors for the first time, which is completing the works. Although not to the students, since they will have to wait until after Christmas. They open, on this occasion, to receive a visit from the Minister of Education, Vicent Marzà, who has toured the corridors and classrooms at the hands of the mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt, and the mayor of La Xara, Maite Pérez Conejero. A mayor who was very happy to power finally affirm: La Xara has a school again.
And it is that 12 years have passed since the old school building was closed, whose students had to study in a barracks area where they have been seen on occasion with floods that have been solved based on of patches. Now those patches have been finished and from their windows the students have been able to see how the enormous building was raised that they are surely eager to visit.
It is to these students, and to those who have already made the leap to high school, that the mayor wanted to especially thank, for having spent so many years in these conditions and that now they will have their precious reward. On this occasion, in the form of a Christmas gift, since it is expected that the next quarter will be started in the new building.
Among its 9 classrooms, 6 primary and 3 nursery, the school will host 164 boys and girls. The total capacity is 225 students, a figure that Pérez thinks they will cover in a few years once the center is presented to the public.
As for the name, it is still too early to know it. A consensus must be reached, although the mayor has made a firm commitment to maintain it as La Xara College so that students can proudly show where they have been educated.
51,8 million euros in the Marina Alta for the improvement and construction of educational centers
The new CEIP La Xara is one of the 41 actions to improve and build educational centers that the Ministry is carrying out in the Marina Alta for 51,8 million euros.
"Of the actions we are carrying out through Edificant, half of the interventions have already been completed or are about to be completed", has commented the minister Marzà.
Of the works of the Edificant plan in the Marina Alta, three of them involve the construction of totally new centers, since to the CEIP La Xara de Dénia we must add the future construction of the new CEE Gargasindi de Calp and the regional CEE Raquel Payá de Denia. These last two interventions represent 5,9 and 6,2 million euros of investment by Education of the Generalitat respectively.
Of the 40,2 million euros of investments of Education of the Generalitat in the Marina Alta through the Edificant plan, an additional 7,2 million will soon be added for the demolition and new construction of the CEIP Graüll de Jávea.
In parallel, it should be remembered that Education has tendered for 8,6 million euros the construction of the integrated center for Primary and Secondary Education (CEIPSO) in Xaló. It is a work that is processed directly by the General Directorate of Educational Infrastructures and in which the Virgen Pobre CEIP will be demolished to build a new center with a unit for Infant 2 years, 4 for Infants from 3 to 5 years, 8 Primary, 8 ESO and a dining room with its own kitchen for 360 students in three shifts.
The forecast is that the works of the new CEIPSO in Xaló will begin during the second quarter of 2021 and will be finished in 18 months. At the same time, the 2021 budget of the Ministry also includes the demolition and replacement of the CEIP Ausiàs March in Els Poblets with an investment of 3 million euros. The tender will begin shortly to build the new center, which will have a classroom for Infant 2 years, 3 for Infants from 3 to 5 years, 6 for Primary and a dining room with kitchen for 180 students in two shifts.
Too many photos of "important people" and not enough of the new building and facilities