We're now just one week away from kids returning to campus in the Sacramento City Unified School District. Elementary students in the Meadowview neighborhood had a chance to check out a brand new school they will be attending.

Cesar Chavez Elementary is the first new school in the district to be built in nearly two decades. The campus combines two previous schools on one site: Edward Kimble Elementary, which was more than 60 years old, and Chavez Intermediate, which had been all portable classrooms.

Community members helped design the new look.

"Themes here were chosen by the students and staff and community," said Jennifer Quigley, school architect. "We had a lot of voting process that we went through."

Cesar Chavez Elementary also features 35 classrooms, an indoor sports court, and w

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