Lee Elementary Magnet School students were moved to Lockhart Elementary Magnet School, which is less than a mile away from Lee. A devastating fire destroyed Lee Elementary and Hillsborough County Public Schools have developed a plan to keep students and staff together.
Beginning on Monday, Sept 18th 2017 students began to share Lockhart campus, which also is a magnet school at 3719 North 17th St., Tampa.
Lockhart Elementary has space for nearly 300 more students and is also located next to Young Middle Magnet School. For the first two to three weeks, the older students from Lee Elementary will temporarily be taught in classrooms on Young’s campus, while the district installs portable classrooms at Lockhart within a few weeks. About 329 students and 49 staff members were displaced.
ReedTMS Logistics jumped on the opportunity to help the children and teachers who lost entire classrooms worth of supplies. National Sales Manager Pat Lyman and Marketing Manager Andy Patel delivered the goods to the classroom on Friday, September 22nd. 2017. They also had the opportunity to spend some time with the children and help them on schooling activities such as division.
