Completion Date
December 2007 (approx)

Building Facts

Spaces within both schools include:

• General classrooms
• Administrative offices
• Clinic
• Guidance suite
• Music room
• Art room with access to the central courtyard
• Media center and adjoining computer lab
• Special education classrooms
• Cafetorium with platform
• Gymnasium
• Faculty dining
• Commons Area with coved ceiling and indirect lighting

Site improvements include:

• Student/staff parking
• Bus loop
• Athletic fields
• Play areas and landscaping
• Three School Road and a public park, as mentioned above

Diamond Springs Elementary School was built on a section of the former Williams Farm property which the City of Virginia Beach acquired.  A public park and a city street (Learning Circle) were built in conjunction with the new Newtown Elementary.  The park and the street represent joint ventures with the City of Virginia Beach’s Departments of Parks and Recreation and Public Works.  The cost of the street project is approximately $3 million and the park will cost approximately $2 million.

Newtown Elementary, Diamond Springs Elementary and Bettie F. Williams Elementary form the Bayside Tri-Campus.