The Fair Street community may have to put up with the daily sounds of construction, but the new Fair Street International Baccalaureate World School is starting to take shape.

In March, construction crews demolished the old building, which had stood for nearly a century.

By next December, the school, currently operating out of Wood’s Mill High School, will move into the new digs.

But the steel skeleton will not start looking like a school until next spring.

Over the next month, construction crews will continue to erect the metal and lay the concrete that will hold up the walls.

According to the project’s progress report, the structural steel work is about 70 percent complete and the roofing is about 80 percent complete. The concrete masonry work is about 35 percent complete.

“The project is running smoothly,” said Keith Vincent, head of maintenance and operations for Gainesville City Schools. “The weather has been cooperating with us, with maybe the exception of three or four days.”

And students and those in the community are waiting patiently for their new home.

“The faculty, parents and students of Fair Street have demonstrated their unconditional support for the building of the new school by thriving in their temporary location while watching in anticipation while the school is built,” said Superintendent Merrianne Dyer.

“The neighborhood and community have been cooperative and uncomplaining as the construction goes on.”

The building will span 104,000 square feet and comes with a budget of $15 million.

Fair Street School has been a staple in the community for more than 75 years, and the new school, some say, will be an upgrade.

“The new school will change the whole face of this neighborhood,” Will Campbell, Fair Street principal, previously told The Times. “This is very exciting for me to know that in (about a year) we’ll be coming back here to a new school.”

The work, Vincent said, is still on schedule and classes are slated to begin in January of 2014.