Victoria Soto School Named After Heroic Teacher Killed In Sandy Hook Shooting Opens

The Victoria Soto School opened after an open house was conducted on Friday afternoon. The beautiful building was named after the heroic teacher to recollect her "heroism and dedication to imparting quality education for children", WTHITV 10

The new building has a few security technology applications, including bulletproof glass and a special buzzer system that let in only authorized entrants. The security feature will be part of every classroom.

Costing $18 million, the new school replaces Honeyspot House and is now part of the Stratford Academy complex. Students in pre-kindergarten right upto second grade will be part of the school, according to Forex Report Daily.

There will also be a large mosaic mural inside, even as the tiles are "personally designed" by the Soto family. Soto's favorite animal, flamingo's images, are also spread all over, according to CBS Connecticut.

Victoria Soto was among those shot in the incident that killed 26, including 20 children. She died while protecting the first-grade students. Being a Stratford local, she had attended local school and her family still lives in the city. She would have turned 30 on November 7.

Jillian Soto, Soto's sister, said the children "will always remember who she was and what she did," she said, according to hngn.

Janet Robinson, Stratford School Superintendent and Newtown's superintendent when the shooting had happened three years ago, remarked that new school showed Soto's passion, which is "the joy of learning."