Full-day kindergarteners now sit in tiny chairs inside classrooms at Legacy Traditional School.

There, more than 11,000 square feet of additional space was recently unveiled, giving the charter school at 17760 Regent Drive room to grow.

Legacy Principal Susie Pries said teachers will be trained and pre-K classes will open in two weeks.

The expansion brings full-day kindergarten and pre-K programs to Legacy for the first time.

“We have 176 so far enrolled for kindergarten,” said Pries, who gave InMaricopa a tour of the new facilities this morning. She said the capacity for pre-K will be 52 kids.

Pries said pre-K was still open for enrollment while daylong kindergarten classes are full.

Five kindergarten and two pre-K classrooms were added. The addition became a reality after the school’s enrollment maxed out at 1,320 students.

The building also houses a large indoor artificially turfed physical education room with a high ceiling where sixth graders and a coach were exercising this morning. The gymnasium includes office space for three PE coaches. It also includes gym equipment storage space.

Outside the freshly painted gray structure is a new playground that will soon be covered with a red metal shade structure, once a crane is brought in to finish the job, Pries said.

Beyond the new playground, a baseball diamond is under construction and a soccer field partly used for construction company vehicles and building supplies is being restored.

Maricopa’s Legacy school is known in the chain as the “Mothership” because it’s the first campus built 16 years ago.

Today, tuition-free Legacy, a K-8 learning institution, has 21 schools in Arizona, including a Legacy Online Academy, plus three in Nevada and three in Texas.

The Legacy expansion project began in March.