Tisbury School

Tisbury School Takes Shape; Progress and Costs Stay on Schedule

As 2023 began, the Tisbury School was a shell of century-old bricks and mortar, stripped of its fixtures and ankle-deep in rubble. This month, workers installed the final steel beam for a two-story gym and cafeteria addition.

Coast Guard Happily Heads Back to Grammar School

It’s not every day uniformed members of the U.S. Coast Guard play volleyball with first-graders or shred string cheese with kindergartners at snack break. At the Tisbury School, however, things like this are happening every Thursday.

Tisbury School Demolition Is an Education from an Earlier Era

Demolition inside the Tisbury School has cleared away nearly a century’s worth of accumulated renovations, revealing the original interior of a town landmark built during the depths of the Great Depression.

Tisbury School Insurance Costs Soar

The Tisbury select board welcomed a new police officer, hired its former building commissioner as a part-time zoning inspector and approved a nearly $900,000 insurance bill for the town school last week.

Tisbury School Digs Into Renovation With Groundbreaking Ceremony

A symbolic ground-breaking at the Tisbury School Saturday morning marked a new chapter for the town school, which graduated its first class of eighth-graders more than 90 years ago.

School Enrollment on the Rise, Contrary to Statewide Trend

Bucking a statewide trend, the Vineyard public school system continues to grow, with 2,253 students enrolled across the Island on Oct. 1 compared to 2,191 a year earlier.

As Tisbury School Move Nears, Town Leaders Juggle Logistics

Thanksgiving break will start two days early at the Tisbury School, where an $82 million renovation and addition project is about to ramp up.

Power Dynamics Could Delay Tisbury School Construction

Eversource's redeployment of workers to Florida to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian could delay getting high-voltage electrical service installed into Tisbury School's modular classrooms.

Tisbury Voters Resoundingly Back Another $26 Million for School Renovation

Casting paper ballots marked YES or NO, Tisbury voters overwhelmingly approved 373 to 112 nearly $26 million in new funding for the proposed school renovations.

Tisbury School Renovation Decision to Come Before Voters Tuesday

Tisbury voters will weigh in at a special town meeting Tuesday on nearly $26 million in additional borrowing to complete the Tisbury School renovation project.

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