PARIS — The Oxford Hills community gets its first chance to provide input on construction of a new middle school tonight, Nov. 7.

The meeting takes place at Oxford Hills Middle School’s gymnasium and will run from 6-8 p.m.

Previous public forums on school construction have been dually focused on two construction projects, the middle school along with Agnes Gray Elementary School in West Paris.

The purpose of tonight’s meeting is to craft a design statement for the next Oxford Hills Middle School.

“This exercise is part of the school construction process and will be led by Harriman Associates,” Superintendent of Schools Heather Manchester said Monday during Maine School Administrative District 17’s school board meeting. “It’s actually exciting, an interactive process where we’ll get to hear what is happening in 21st century schools. And participants will be able to do work that will help support the design statement for our new middle school.”

There are a handful of sites currently under consideration for the next OHMS, but the only location that has been disclosed is at the current school, known as the North Campus, on Pine Street in South Paris.

For more than 10 years seventh and eighth grade students in Oxford Hills have been split between attending the main school in South Paris and the South Campus, which is located on Madison Ave. in Oxford.

Once the new middle school is completed, sixth grade will transition from being part of the district’s elementary schools to junior high.