SCHOOL WILL BE FIRST IN 7 YEARS WESTSIDE FACILITY WILL OPEN IN 2003.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Westside Union School District is building its first new school in seven years to accommodate youngsters moving with their families into the rapidly growing Rancho Vista area. Esperanza School, expected to open in August 2003, will take in pupils who otherwise would attend Quartz Hill, Rancho Vista and 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. elementary schools. ``It's going to pick up parts of each of those three attendance areas,'' said Regina Rossall, 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. for educational services. The school is being built on 10 acres near Town Center Drive and Bolz Ranch Road, near the Rancho Vista golf course and adjoining five acres designated for a city park. The school will hold about 750 pupils in kindergarten through fifth grade. The building will be financed by money raised from an extension of a school construction tax approved by Westside voters in 1998. Esperanza is Westside's first new school since Sundown School, completed in 1994. Construction will cost $6.3 million. The district hired J. Murrey mur·rey n. See mulberry. [Middle English murrei, from Old French more, from Latin m Construction of Redlands as the contractor. Far down on the priority list to qualify for state aid, the district decided to use its own money to pay for construction, then apply for reimbursement from the state. Esperanza - Spanish for ``hope'' - was the name of a west Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley farming community in the early 1900s and was one of the elementary districts that combined decades ago to form Westside Union. The district office is in what used to be Esperanza School. The campus will include a conventionally built main building containing offices, a cafeteria and classrooms, with four prefabricated pre·fab·ri·cate tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and wings of classrooms. Prefabrication prefabrication, in architectural construction, a technique whereby large units of a building are produced in factories to be assembled, ready-made, on the building site. The technique permits the speedy erection of very large structures. is cheaper than conventional construction but more durable than portable classrooms, officials said. |
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