After decades of seeing schools closed in Kenmore, the Akron neighborhood is finally getting a new one.
Educators, local elected officials and students celebrated the groundbreaking for the as-of-yet unnamed school Thursday. The new K-8 building will replace both Pfeiffer Elementary in Kenmore and the Miller South School for the Performing Arts in Sherbondy Hill.
It will be located on the site of the former Kenmore High School. The district closed the building in 2022 after it was merged with Garfield High School. It was torn down in 2025. The high school was one of six schools that have been closed in the neighborhood over the last three decades due to declining population.
Superintendent Mary Outley acknowledged advocates in the community and hard conversations by former board members that led to the decision to build a new school in the community…