Students starting school Monday at Gloucester High School can expect to enter a newly renovated ‘D’ hall, now called 300 hall, as renovation efforts for the school have now moved ahead of schedule.

“It’s been quite a whirlwind over summer,” said Charles Records, construction/project coordinator for Gloucester County Public Schools.

Over the summer, 300 hall received new roofing, HVAC systems, windows, paint, flooring, lighting and plumbing. Also completed by E.T. Gresham over the summer months were the media center/library, commons, cafeteria, kitchen, band room, chorus room and drama room.

“We’ve opened up a bunch of new restrooms with the work we’ve done over the summer,” said Records.

Currently under con-struction are the girls’ locker room, extended learning area and ‘C’ hall, which will be known as 200 hall. The girls’ locker room is slated for completion in December. The new extended learning area will be located in the previous administration and clinic space and should be ready for student use on Monday.

‘C’ hall classrooms, which houses most of the career and technical education (CTE) classes, have been displaced to the modular classrooms. Records said renovations on this area of the building will not impact CTE learning since cosmetology, carpentry, culinary, auto mechanics and agriculture have their own exterior entrances. Those particular spaces will be renovated over next summer.

The auditorium will also be renovated next summer. Renovations will include new roofing, HVAC, lighting and paint.

“We’re under budget right now,” said Records.

If renovations go well over the school year, the district could potentially use the project’s contingency funds to renovate the exterior campus next summer. This would include work on the student parking lot, bus loop and field hockey field. Next summer, the modular classrooms will be removed.

Final completion of the GHS renovation project is planned for September 2025.

“We’ll have a brand-new building inside its 50-year-old shell,” said Records.