New All-Girls Middle School Gets Day of Beauty
Volunteers planted, painted and put together furniture Saturday at Ferrell Girls Preparatory School.
The first all-girls public school in Hillsborough County got a glamour makeover on Saturday from a crew of 100 volunteers. The workers planted, painted and refurbished the principal’s office and teachers’ lounge at Ferrell Girls Preparatory Academy, 4302 24th St., Tampa. The campus, formerly a magnet school for boys and girls interested in global communications, is scheduled to reopen Aug. 23 with about 400 sixth- through eighth-grade girls from throughout Hillsborough County. That’s about half the size of a traditional public middle school. The county school district is sprucing up the campus over the summer, but it got a big boost over the weekend from volunteers with United Way and the National Association of College and University …
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