After telling the Faculty Board final week that the constructing was insured for under $13 million, the superintendent instructed households in a neighborhood assembly that the division’s insurer VACorp can pay greater than that to interchange the varsity if obligatory.

Town’s two latest elementary faculties every price about $35 million.

Kamras didn’t say precisely how a lot the insurer will cowl, including that there might nonetheless be some negotiation over the ultimate fee, however sought to guarantee households that the varsity within the metropolis’s Fan District might be changed with insurance coverage cash.

“They will make a dedication and we’ll take a look at that quantity,” he mentioned. “If we really feel in a different way about it, then there might be a dialogue. However sure, they’re going to pay for the substitute.”

Along with the insurance coverage cash, faculty division officers on Tuesday mentioned state lawmakers within the Home of Delegates have proposed $2 million for Fox within the state’s subsequent two-year price range.

The superintendent mentioned it stays unclear how quickly the varsity might be rebuilt as insurance coverage adjusters and the fireplace division are nonetheless investigating what prompted the fireplace and assessing the extent of the harm.

In the meantime, the roughly 360 college students at Fox are going to highschool nearly whereas the varsity division scrambles to determine a short lived residence for them.

Kamras mentioned Tuesday that officers are nonetheless evaluating plans at a number of websites, however that the shuttered Clark Springs Elementary about two miles away within the Randolph neighborhood continues to be the main “viable possibility.”

“I’d say it is in good structural form,” he mentioned. “There are some roof leaks and plumbing points that have to be addressed. I will say it isn’t probably the most lovely constructing, however that is simply beauty … and may be addressed shortly.”

Many questions nonetheless stay in regards to the hearth, switch plans and the rebuilding course of.

Kamras mentioned he is not sure how lengthy college students will proceed studying nearly and when the fireplace division will full its investigation.

A spokesperson for the fireplace division on Tuesday declined to reply questions in regards to the hearth pending the completion of its investigation.

“As it’s an lively and ongoing investigation, there is no such thing as a definitive date of completion,” Chrys Slaughter, the fireplace division’s spokesperson, mentioned in an e mail.

Boz Boschen, a father of three college students at Fox, mentioned after the neighborhood assembly that he and different mother and father are feeling a little bit of frustration not understanding when their youngsters might be again in a college or when Fox might be rebuilt.

“I do know it is early … however I’ve three youngsters at residence. My spouse and I are each attempting to work at home. It isn’t ideally suited,” he mentioned. “It makes issues a little bit chaotic.”