| Work is being completed on the first cross-county school in West Virginia.
Officials say they are putting the finishing touches on the Leading Creek Elementary School, a new school that will serve students in both Lewis and Gilmer Counties.
The school was originally scheduled to be finished in time for this semester, but Lewis County Superintendent Joe Mace said the school will open this fall.
The school has been built on or near the county lines of Gilmer and Lewis.
Leading Creek Elementary School is not your typical consolidation. The school will take students from Troy Elementary in Gilmer County and Alum Bridge Elementary in Lewis Countyâabout 225 totalâand put them in one building, an $11 million facility.
Robert Waugh, the clerk of the works for the Lewis County school board, said there will be a concrete marker where the county line splits the school campus.
The school project rises in the midst of the state's controversial take-over of the Gilmer County School System, essentially to close rural schools and consolidate.
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