Yesterday, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and special-education students joined fifth graders in a school annex a few blocks away.
"They have mostly been converted to different uses,"said Oscar Israelowitz, author of "Synagogues of New York City/History of a Jewish Community," as he listed them: "churches, public school annexes, professional buildings, warehouses and in the last few years, private residences".
If May wants to see what that looks like today she needs to look no further than her own back yard, where a vibrant cross-party campaign seems to be holding off the idea of a new grammar school annex in her currently comprehensive constituency.
In November, after a Jewish school annex in a Paris suburb was badly damaged by a predawn firebomb, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy visited the site within hours and said it was "more than strongly suspected" to be an anti-Semitic and "obviously" racist act.
Earlier bids to run mixed grammar school annexes on the same site were turned down by the Department for Education (DfE).
He said the decision would be made by central government and KCC, but he added: "I can't believe that a site issue can stop good schools being developed, whether they are selective schools, grammar school annexes, non-selective schools, free schools or whatever.
On Saturday night, after seven hours of marching in 90-degree heat, marchers laid out sleeping bags in the gymnasium of a former high-school annexed to St . Judes Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where the original Selma marchers slept more than 50 years ago.
King was in his office, in the Sunday-school annex of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church.
The schools, annexes and portable classrooms, which are being built by the School Construction Authority, will accommodate 10,574 students.
His office, in the Sunday-school annex, to the left of the church, smelled of paraffin and linoleum glue.
