Created: 11/12/2008 12:13:24 PM 
Saxapahaw, NC -- Students at B. Everett Jordan Elementary will move into new classrooms next Monday. Many of the school's 480 students have been learning inside five temporary mobile classrooms.
The 8,540 square-foot wing is the first addition built onto a school in Alamance County paid for through lottery money. The school system used $1,465,200 to build the six classrooms.
Assistant Superintendent Ronnie Wall said the school system receives money quarterly from the lottery. The school system just recently accumulated enough money to pay for the B. Everett Jordan project, he said.
About 40 percent of the money the county receives goes to construction. The other 50 percent goes to efforts to reduce class sizes and 10 percent funds college scholarships.
According to numbers from the North Carolina Education Lottery, people have spent $48.6 million on the lottery in Alamance County since it began in 2006. Of that, $7.7 million has gone back into the Alamance-Burlington School System. That means for every dollar people spend on the lottery in Alamance County, 16 cents goes to the school system.
Alamance County received the third-lowest amount of money in the state, compared to North Carolina's 99 other counties.
B. Everett Jordan Elementary will hold a grand opening for the new wing Thursday, Nov. 13 at 5 p.m.
The Alamance-Burlington School System is currently taking bids for its next lottery-funded project. The money will pay for four classrooms at Sylvan Elementary in Snow Camp. There is no time-frame for the project yet, Wall said, because the money has to accumulate for the project. He estimates it will cost less than $1.2 million.
2 Wants To Know investigated how lottery money is spent in North Carolina. See the results Tuesday on WFMY News 2 at 11.
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