ADVERTISEMENT New K-8 school tops Little Rock district list Officials propose $300M in projects with extension of tax by Cynthia Howell | Today at 6:54 a.m. Little Rock School District Superintendent Mike Poore is shown in this file photo. A new kindergarten-through-eighth grade school on the site of the vacant McClellan High is the Little Rock School District's top construction priority, Superintendent Mike Poore said Thursday. "If this is passed in November, we're turning dirt by Jan. 1," Poore said of a possible tax-extension election and a new $85 million school for 1,400 pupils at 9417 Geyer Springs Road. Speaking at Southwest High School at the first of five community forums, Poore and Kelsey Bailey, the district's chief finance and operations officer, presented a draft list of $300 million in projects -- including the McClellan replacement -- that could be financed with the proceeds of a 12.4-mill tax extension.