The Somerville school that shuttered after concrete crumbled in its halls this spring will continue to hold classes at a different venue next year.

Most students at the pre-kindergarten-grade 8 Winter Hill Community Innovation School will be learning at the city’s Edgerly administrative building, while pre-K and kindergarten classes will be moved to the Capuano School.

Officials alerted parents and community members last week of the change in learning venue, citing uncertainty around whether Winter Hill’s rotting infrastructure would be secure enough for classes to proceed.

Structural engineers are studying the 95,000-square-foot school, built in 1975, and the reports should be done sometime in July, according to Interim Superintendent Jeff Curley, Winter Hill Principal Courtney Gosselin and Mayor Katjana Ballantyne.

“Because we expect assessments and final reports to take several more weeks, and to be sure we have a formal plan in place for the fall with enough time to plan, we have made the decision that classes will be held in an off-site location for next school year,” they wrote in a letter to the community.

Initial inspection results, shared with the Herald on Friday, indicate what many Somerville residents, educators and officials have long suspected: Infrastructure woes are very much part of Winter Hill’s makeup.

Sylvester Black, a senior project manager for structural engineering consultant Silman, told officials in a June 1 email that it will take more than an “immediate fix” to address what he called “a systemic, wide-spread problem of water infiltration throughout the building, spanning decades rather than years.”

“The portion of concrete that fell doesn’t at first glance look like it was the epicenter of the water damage,” Black wrote, “so it raises concern that similar breaks could occur in other parts of this stairwell or other stairwells.”

Black met with a team of teachers, administrators and site personnel at Winter Hill on May 31, a day before officials notified the community of the buckling concrete that prompted the school to close. It remains unclear when the ceiling collapsed exactly.

Parents on June 2 then learned students would finish the 2022-23 year elsewhere. Tufts University’s Olin Hall in Medford hosted grades 1-8, while the Edgerly and Capuano hosted pre-K, kindergarten and specialized programming for immigrant students and those with autism.

“Much of this systemic water-damage ‘history’ is not obvious on a sunny day like yesterday,” Black wrote. “The local areas of peeling paint, and even previous patches I observed do not immediately reveal the extensiveness of the potential problem. Compared to typical roof leaks that have ‘easy’ patch solutions, what they described is an alarming amount of water regularly coming into the building, for a very long time.”

Nicholas Antanavica, Somerville’s inspectional services director, determined in a June 4 visit that students shouldn’t be allowed back at Winter Hill until a leak and ceiling grid in the “north stairwell” are addressed.

Officials said they selected the Edgerly for next year because it ensures a majority of Winter Hill’s roughly 420 students will remain together. Administrators will be moving out of the building in the coming weeks so it can be prepped before classes start late August.

The Winter Hill Parent Teacher Association, in a letter to the School Committee, said a top priority was to “keep our school community intact.”

“For many immigrants and refugee families, our school is the only family that we know,” part of the letter reads. “We do not want to be split up this Fall like we have been in the last two weeks of school. We belong together, and, we belong to the city of Somerville. Our school is our sanctuary.”

The crumbling concrete and subsequent closure have prompted sharp attention from the City Council and School Committee.

Councilors earlier this month approved a request from the mayor to add $7.8 million to the city’s facility renovation and reconstruction stabilization fund, bringing the account’s total to roughly $12.2 million.

“This is expected to provide more than enough funding to ensure the Edgerly Education Center is ready and welcoming for Winter Hill Students in the fall,” the mayor’s office told the Herald.

Of that $12.2 million,  $1.3 million will cover a feasibility study to create new building space at Winter Hill and another aging school in the city.

Councilors also approved a request from the mayor to appropriate $103,382 as an amendment to the proposed budget for next fiscal year for a senior project manager who’d be responsible for overseeing interim solutions at Winter Hill as well as supporting a K-8 master plan.

Ballantyne said either renovating or rebuilding Winter Hill is a priority “front and center” for her administration.

“I would like to acknowledge that people are upset, and they should be about our failing buildings and the legacy infrastructure problems,” the mayor said at a June 12 School Committee meeting. “I’m upset about that, too.”

Councilor Willie Burnley, Jr., told the Herald he wants to see more urgency from city leaders. A feasibility study, he believes, could take too long to identify what is already known: There needs to be a new Winter Hill building regardless.

“The mayor is at the heart of this matter,” Burnley said, “in terms of how quickly we move, what the process is moving forward. As soon as we can start giving these folks the answers they deserve, the better off our community will be.”