VIDEO: Vandergriff fence to be installed over spring break

Vandergriff Elementary School in Fayetteville; photographed on Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Vandergriff Elementary School in Fayetteville; photographed on Tuesday, March 7, 2017

FAYETTEVILLE -- Superintendent Matthew Wendt has requested a fencing project at Vandergriff Elementary School be completed during spring break.

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A fence is located on school property but does not border the entire campus, he said.

"That will change," Wendt said Tuesday during a news conference.

Wendt anticipates the completed fence will be in place when children return to school March 27. Spring break is March 20-24.

Adron Benton, who attended Vandergriff Elementary School, went missing March 7 from the school playground and was found unresponsive in the swimming pool of a nearby home. He was taken to Washington Regional Medical Center and then to Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, where he died Wednesday, officials have said.

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District officials are auditing other campuses to determine where additional fencing is needed to protect children from private property, roads and parking lots, he said.

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