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Wharton Elementary will call Brookmeade home for first year

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - While the sign still reads "Brookmeade Elementary School", it was Wharton Elementary students who returned to the classrooms of the west Nashville school building Friday morning.

Wharton Elementary is one of two new Metro schools this school year, temporarily housed in old school buildings in Davidson County.

Madison Middle School also opened in the old Ewing Park Middle School building in Joelton.

Brookmeade, Ewing Park and two others, Martha Vaught Middle School and Cora Howe Elementary School, closed for good at the end of the school year last year following district wide rezoning changes.

Wharton's teachers and administrators spent long hours over the summer getting Brookmeade ready for students again.

"The principal and I were here until 3 a.m. working on her office and making sure things were organized," teacher Pattye Evans told News 2 Friday.

The temporary move also forces parents to make some sacrifices.

Kenosha Bowlling said while driving her daughter Shlai a little further to school is "inconvenient", she'll make it work.

"It's okay, but the old Wharton School is much closer and she is a car rider so I have to drive all the way out Charlotte [Avenue]," she said.

The old Wharton School on Dr. DB Todd Jr. Boulevard in north Nashville is undergoing renovations and construction will continue throughout the school year.

It is expected to open in time for the 2010-2011 school year.