DISTRICT SEEKING EAST SIDE SCHOOL SITES RAPID GROWTH CROWDS CAMPUSES.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - With student enrollment expected to hit 6,000 by 2004, the Sulphur Springs School District The Sulphur Springs School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves portions of the Canyon Country and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California. As of March 26, 2006, it has 8 elementary schools. has begun searching for additional school sites on the east side of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . District officials and others said continuing growth throughout the valley, especially in outlying Canyon Country areas, creates an urgent need for additional campuses. ``We're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. at least one, possibly two additional school sites,'' said Kent Frison, assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of business services. ``We have to begin looking because of the overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. .'' The district currently has seven campuses, with three on year-round schedules and at least one more slated for multitrack mul·ti·track adj. 1. Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder. 2. scheduling beginning next school year. At Valley View, the most crowded campus in the district, more than 1,000 students attend school on a four-track system. School officials said that new schools could ease overcrowding and bring the year-round campuses back to a traditional calendar. They are hoping to build a new school on the east side of the district and one near the Golden Valley Ranch area. An earlier plan to fund a school in the new Golden Valley Ranch development, where 800 homes had been planned, fell through when a potentially larger housing project was not approved by the Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle . Another site being considered is one mile from the proposed Transit Mixed Concrete mine project, although school officials said they oppose the mine and would not build a school if the mine is approved. Azusa-based Transit Mixed Concrete is seeking federal approval to mine deeper into the hillside along Soledad Canyon Road, just east of the city's border and north of the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . While the school district begins its search for new school sites, officials are hoping for speedy approval and construction of its next campus. Initial groundwork for the next school, Fair Oaks, has been completed and school officials are now awaiting final approval from the State Department of Education to begin construction. ``The site is totally graded and ready for construction,'' Frison said. ``If all goes well, we'll go out for bids in January and begin construction in February or March.'' The district submitted its application for 50 percent of the funding from the state in September. A projected opening has been slated for February 2002. |
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