MIDDLE SCHOOL SITE EYED WESTSIDE DISTRICT ENROLLMENT BURGEONING.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Westside Union School District officials are eyeing 25 acres owned by the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale in west Palmdale for a middle-school site. The middle school would help handle the influx of students coming from new subdivisions in west Palmdale. Officials project that 6,300 more homes will be built within Westside boundaries in the next five years, boosting enrollment to more than 10,300 - up 45 percent from today. More than 7,100 students in kindergarten through eighth grade are now enrolled in Westside schools. ``The district is in a growth mode and will continue to be in a growth mode into the next decade. If there is no plan of what we need to be able to accommodate that growth, then we won't have the adequate (classroom space) when the new students come,'' Superintendent John Costello John Costello can refer to:
The potential middle school site is on the south side of Rancho ran·cho n. pl. ran·chos Southwestern U.S. 1. A hut or group of huts for housing ranch workers. 2. A ranch. Vista Boulevard, between 30th Street West and Avenue O-8. It was acquired by the high school district when its officials were considering a small high school there for top academic performers. High school officials said there have been no official negotiations for the property. ``There's been some expression of interest, but nothing official at this point,'' Jeff Foster Jeffrey Douglas Foster (born January 16 1977, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA. , 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 the high school district, said. The site is mentioned in a Westside facilities master plan that was presented last week to the board of the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade system. Adoption of the plan is not expected until early next year. The draft plan calls for three to five schools to serve students from the 7,500-home City Ranch housing development south of Elizabeth Lake Road; an elementary school elementary school: see school. at 52nd Street West and Avenue N-8; modernization of Leona Valley, Valley View and Joe Walker middle schools; and new library and media centers for Quartz Hill, Cottonwood cottonwood: see willow. cottonwood Any of several fast-growing North American trees of the genus Populus. Members of the willow family, cottonwoods have heart-shaped, toothed leaves and cottony seeds. The dangling leaves clatter in the wind. , Rancho Vista and Valley View schools. Under the plan, there also would be a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. facility for the district office, maintenance, operations and warehousing, and there would be a second gym at Joe Walker Middle School that would be shared with the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County education system. The school now has a gym that doubles as a cafeteria. No cost estimates have been developed for all these projects. Possible sources of funding include money from the $13 billion state school construction bond measure on the Nov. 5 ballot, developer fees and contributions from other public agencies for joint-use facilities, such as the proposed second gym at Joe Walker Middle School. District officials also would consider trying to get voter approval for another bond measure or forming a Mello-Roos tax district, which assesses homeowners or landowners for the costs of schools. Westside school board member Gwen Farrell said a long-range plan is necessary. ``You have to have some direction and focus on where you are going with building to make sure you have the funds and support of the community,'' Farrell said. Farrell said studies indicate that households in the district are yielding, on average, almost 300 students from every 600 homes that are built. |
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