Revere schools on the move

REVERE – Mike Ciarlone’s official title is maintenance and physical plant director, but you can also call him conductor of musical chairs.Ciarlone is spending this week overseeing the migration of desks, books, chairs, boxes full of paper and dozens of other types of furniture and supplies from the Paul Revere School to the Beachmont School and from Beachmont to the Rumney Marsh Academy.Once the move is complete, Beachmont will be ready to open its doors in August to 400 Paul Revere students. Rumney students who took classes at Beachmont for the past two school years will join middle school classmates from across the city at the newly built Rumney Marsh.About 475 to 500 students will attend Rumney.”Awesome” is the way Rumney Principal Cindy Evans describes the prospect of moving into the new $30.5 million school located between the high school and American Legion Highway.The Rumney’s 50 rooms include 34 classrooms, a 200-seat auditorium, basketball court and a cafeteria with plenty of natural light.”I’m thrilled to be moving in. Our focus on communications will truly give us a chance to make kids multi-literate in the 21st century,” Evans said.Rumney Marsh is the third new public school built in the city in two years with the Susan B. Anthony Middle School opening along with the Whelan School in 2006.Paul Revere students will attend Beachmont for two or three years, Ciarlone said, while a new Paul Revere is built. Mayor Thomas Ambrosino hopes the city can start construction on a new McKinley School in 2011.Although movers covered a distance of mere yards between the old and new Whelan, Ciarlone said the move was more complicated than the ones to Beachmont and Rumney Marsh.”These are just from one school to another while, at Whelan, we moved equipment and furniture to seven schools across the city,” he said.In addition to hosting Paul Revere students starting in August, Beachmont will also house the new public school parent information center.