The children of Markham Elementary finally made it back to their home campus on Tuesday, 51 weeks after the prolonged ice storm from last January broke pipes and flooded their school in southwest Portland.
Since January of last year, Markham’s students have been learning online before being divided among four other primary schools in Southwest Portland. While construction workers replaced Markham’s galvanized pipes and mitigated its exposed asbestos, kids from Markham were reunited in a Jackson Middle School wing this autumn. During last year’s ice storm, the school was by far the most severely affected of any school in the Portland area.
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