On May 15, Henrico School Board members approved the schematic design for a new elementary school in the Fairfield District – a project that is estimated to cost a total of $46 million.
The two-story, 93,000-square-foot building would hold up to 750 students and would be completed by the beginning of the 2029-2030 school year. The school would be located in Glen Allen, northwest of the intersection of Woodman Road and Farmstead Mill Drive, adjacent to the Fall Line Trail and the River Mill neighborhood.
School redistricting, which would need to be finalized by the fall of 2028, most likely would impact Chamberlayne Elementary, Greenwood Elementary, Longdale Elementary, and Maude Trevvett Elementary, and also could impact Echo Lake Elementary, Elizabeth Holladay Elementary, Glen Allen Elementary, and Laburnum Elementary, according to HCPS officials.
The new elementary school site would include an outdoor track and playground as well as an enclosed outdoor courtyard space with synthetic turf grass. Both cars and school buses would enter and exit the campus on Woodman Road.
The first floor would contain the cafeteria and gymnasium (which would share a stage), the main office area next to the main entrance, and the music and art classrooms. Pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and exceptional education classrooms would be located on the first floor, with a bathroom inside each classroom…