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A forthcoming elementary school needed to relieve overcrowding and anticipated growth in Henrico County schools will be built alongside an existing elementary school.

A new Brookland District elementary school approved as part of a November bond referendum will be constructed on the same site as Elizabeth Holladay Elementary, which sits on roughly 20 acres east of Staples Mill Road near Hilliard Road.

The $20 million project is still in the early stages. The school has a tentative opening slated for 2021 with construction expected to start in the fall 2019. The design and specific educational programming at the school have not been finalized. Even the name has yet to be chosen by the School Board.

Conceptual sketches presented Thursday to the board show a school that could be one or two stories and could be attached to Elizabeth Holladay.

Henrico needed 10 acres that could be built on for the new school in the Brookland District, according to Al Ciarochi, assistant superintendent for operations.

“It’s a very densely populated area,” Ciarochi said. “It was very challenging to find a site within that area that was viable.”