PHOENIX — The former Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School, home of the Monarchs, has undergone another metamorphosis.
The school is one of five closed by the district at the end of the 2024-2025 school year and has been repurposed into a community hub for more than 500 families with children from infants up to 5 years old.
“Childcare and child development, families learning how to support their children,” Superintendent Dr. Dani Portillo said. “The commitments that we made to the community is that these campuses would be very carefully transformed into assets for our community. So we’re trying to build value to the community.”…