Scott Girard:

This fall, the new three-story school off of Rimrock Road will house students currently attending Frank Allis Elementary School. That building will then be used for Nuestro Mundo Elementary School, MMSD’s dual-language immersion charter that currently leases a Monona school building.

The school’s soon-to-come opening is monumental for the south side, which hasn’t had an elementary school in the neighborhood before, leaving students in that area with long bus rides.

Those hundreds of Allis students will move from one of the district’s oldest facilities to its newest. It will feature plenty of natural light beyond the skylight, with floor-to-ceiling windows in a library on one corner of the building.