The Newtown, Connecticut, school where 20 students and six educators were killed in December 2012 was demolished and rebuilt.
The new Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut, opened its doors to the public for the first time on Friday. The $50 million, 86,800-square-foot building officially starts hosting students next month when school starts.
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The school will replace the one torn down after a gunman entered in December 2012 and killed 20 first-graders and six educators.
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The new building was built on the same property, but on adjacent grounds to the old campus. Since the shooting, Sandy Hook students have been attending classes at a campus in neighboring Monroe.
The lobby of the new school.
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"Let me state unequivocally that we would trade in a minute this beautiful new school for the more familiar and ancient Sandy Hook school, built in the '50s, if we could just change the past," Newtown's First Selectman Pat Llodra told the Associated Press.
Colored toy ducks are placed in a classroom.
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