UPDATE: Leaky roof prompts school closure

Classes at Hacker Middle School were cancelled on Wednesday after rain water leaked through the roof over a section of the school.

Citing safety concerns, school officials opted to cancel classes at the school until maintenance crews could finish cleaning up hallways and classrooms that had water dripping through the ceiling.

"The goal is to work it so we can open tomorrow (Jan. 7)," said middle school principal John Clark.

Trash cans and assorted buckets continue to collect rain water that dripped through the ceiling of the sixth grade hallway at Hacker Middle School on Jan. 6. Officials cancelled classes at the school that day to allow crews to clean up the water.

The rain water seeped into a stretch of the sixth grade hallway, which was in the process of having the roof replaced as part of a project that began this fall, Clark said.

In recent weeks, crews had already replaced a section of the roof previously identified as in the worst condition. That part of the school had no water leakage, the principal emphasized.