The new Chalk Road Elementary School off of Airport Road is beginning to take shape.

Over the past couple of months, Richmond County Board of Education Vice Chairman Tom McInnis and board member Wiley Mabe have expressed their pleasure with the progress of the project to provide a new kindergarten through fifth grade school.

“It’s a really clean site, and appears to be well-run,” McInnis said at one of the meetings.

Once completed, the more than $13 million school building will house students who previously would have attended Ashley Chapel, Cordova and Rohanen Primary.

Chalk Road Elementary is slated to open at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year.

“It’s going real good,” Richmond County Schools Maintenance Director Terry Miller said Wednesday. “They’re right on schedule.”

In an e-mail he said the concrete floor for the ground floor of the facility is complete, and the block walls are 90 percent complete up to the second floor slab of the classroom wing.

He also said the upper story concrete floor is scheduled to be completed this week, which will allow the general contractor to continue up with the block walls to the second floor roof framing level.

The roof framing and structural steel is in progress for the first floor, which includes the gymnasium, administrative offices, cafeteria and media center areas, he wrote in the e-mail.

He also said electrical and plumbing work have been completed under the building first floor, and are in progress for the ceiling and upper floor levels.

The water and sewer utilities have also been completed from the utility company tie-in to the building site, while the electrical and natural gas service is in progress.

“The building is on schedule and expected to be dried in by the end of November to mid-December 2009,” he wrote.