Parents and homeowners in Soundview are once again outraged that the Department of Education planned to put a new school in their community allegedly without notifying anyone. Making matters worse is the fact that pre-K students will be exposed to rowdy teen behavior when the high school is built on the playground of an elementary school.

PS 93 on Story Avenue will soon have new classroom trailers erected on the grounds of the pre-K through 5th grade school. The students are said to be from the Peace and Diversity Academy, a mini high school inside the overcrowded Lehman High School in Pelham Bay. Some 250 to 300 students are expected to attend class in the trailers across the street from rows of homes and in the backyard of an elementary school.

“High school behavior is not something that five- and six-year-olds should be observing out their windows,” said Stephanie Pryor, president of the Parents Association of PS 93.

The school recently received a grant to renovate PS 93’s playground in an area with few playgrounds and recreational outlets for children. Now trailers are expected to fill the playground.

“Here we are again with the Board of Ed who just walks into the neighborhood and puts down roots in our community,” Pryor said.

The move is to free space in the already overcrowded Lehman High School in Pelham Bay. Currently 5,000 students attend classes in three separate high schools housed within Lehman. The school was built for 3,500. One insider said that with the support staffs for the schools the number goes to some 7,000 people housed in a building whose certificate of occupancy is only for 3,000.

Parents are concerned about dismissal time in which the young children will be exposed to the high school students and their behavior. Homeowners are worried about high school students loitering, littering and fighting on their property. For years, Fort Castle homeowners fought with education officials over Stevenson students hanging in front of homes and vandalizing property.

Homeowners on Story Avenue are worried that the new high school will decrease property values in the area.

The parents are upset that they were not included in the decision making process.

“How many times do we have to request to be informed?” asked Francisco Gonzalez, district manager of Community Board 9. “(The Department of Education) doesn’t ask us to participate in the conversation on the fate of the community.”

The plan to build a high school at PS 93 has outraged residents and community leaders who are still angry over the decision to open the infamous “Toxic High.” With no notification, two years ago the Department of Ed built a high school on the contaminated grounds of the former defense manufacturing plant Loral, which is up the block from PS 93.