ASTEC breaks ground on elementary school

ASTEC Charter Schools has taken the first stab in the dirt toward a $13 million elementary school facility.

ASTEC — Advanced, Science and Techonology Education Charter— hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Friday fora new elementary school at 2600 Gen. Pershing in Okahoma City. Founded in 2000, A STEC was Oklahoma's first startup charter school, and it now serves more than 1,000 middle and high school students.

The elementary school will educate children from pre-K through fifth grade.

The school's foundation and leadership have raised more than $4 million in private and foundation dollars to buy the land for the school site and make a down payment on the building.

ASTEC celebrated i ts ground breaking with Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, Oklahoma County Commissioner Carrie Blumert, Inasmuch Foundation President and CEO Bob Ross, and Brent Bushey, executive director of the Oklahoma Public School Resource Center.