A new boiler room, a boarding school meeting standards for people with reduced mobility, a kitchen redone on a single level, a footbridge to connect the gymnasium to the classrooms… It's a vast project that has been underway for three years in the small town André-Honnorat school in Barcelonnette, which welcomes around 500 students each year divided between middle school and high school.
A completely new school complex for the start of the 2026 school year
Éliane Barreille, president of the Alpes de Haute-Provence Departmental Council, was on site last week to follow the progress of the work, which is partly financed by the Department (to the tune of 6 million euros), and managed by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region (Paca). The opportunity also to present their college certificate diplomas to the winners of the 2023-2024 school year. There are 57 of them who obtained this pass (out of 70 registered), including 47 with honors.
Also read: Éliane Barreille takes stock of the progress of the work on the school campus that the Department is financing.
Most of the work initially planned has already been completed. But in addition to the new, the Department wanted to refresh the historic building of the school complex and improve the lighting. “I thank the principal who really took the bull by the horns, and who did some of the cleaning and painting work on his school endowment“, declared Éliane Barreille at the end of the visit. “We will continue to work on the lighting, the floors, the false ceilings so as to have correct rooms. When? We will try to finish in the summer of 2026, explains, for his part, Bruno Langevin, in charge of the operation for the Region. The objective is that all the rooms will be renovated at the start of the 2026 school year..”
The project took five years and required careful organization to disrupt the daily life of the establishment as little as possible.
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