STUDENTS PUT SQUEEZE ON SPACE; HART DISTRICT SEEKS TO EXPAND CAMPUS FACILITIES.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer At Saugus High School Saugus High School may refer to:
At 3-1/2-year-old Valencia High School Valencia High School may refer to:
adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room has been converted into four classrooms to help accommodate the school's 2,300 students. At junior highs and high schools across the district, the number of students has risen dramatically in recent years, but facilities on the campuses that serve them - such as restrooms, cafeterias and gymnasiums - have stayed the same. In the case of blacktop and athletic field space, it has shrunk to make room for portable classrooms. And as the number of students swells, so do the faculty ranks. As a result, many district teachers are forced into a nomadic See nomadic computing. existence, roaming from one available classroom to the next during the course of the day. ``We're really feeling the crowding. We're not bursting at the seams, when it comes to every classroom being utilized, but we're getting there real quick,'' said Saugus High Principal Cheryl Brown. ``I have a few `traveling teachers,' which is not good. They're moving between classrooms and taking their supplies with them,'' Brown said, explaining that teachers with their own classrooms must vacate To annul, set aside, or render void; to surrender possession or occupancy. The term vacate has two common usages in the law. With respect to real property, to vacate the premises means to give up possession of the property and leave the area totally devoid of contents. during their open period each day to allow use by colleagues. Enrollment in the William S. Hart Union High School District is growing by leaps and bounds, and all anyone can do about it is make the best of it. Almost every campus has more students than the capacity for which it was originally designed, creating the need for 85 portable classrooms to augment the permanent buildings at each school. There are 20 more of the temporary facilities due to be delivered soon; they should be in place and ready for use by the time students return from spring break April 13, said Lew White, the Hart district's coordinator of facilities. And last week, the school board authorized Superintendent Robert Lee Robert Lee is the name of several people and could refer to:
This year, the district grew by 950 students from its level in the 1996-97 school term. Principals and district administrators keep tabs on elementary school elementary school: see school. enrollments, birth records and construction of residential neighborhoods to plan how many students to expect at its four high schools and four junior highs. And although district administrators have prospective sites on which to build a fifth junior high and a fifth high school, getting the funding to do so is a challenge. Lee estimated that a school for seventh- and eighth-graders would cost $24 million to build, and a campus for ninth-through-12th-graders would cost $54 million. Each school is two or three years down the road, at the earliest, Lee added. District administrators have targeted land at Newhall Ranch Road and McBean Parkway for the junior high. Lee said the district is eyeing some undeveloped land within a one-mile radius of La Mesa La Mesa (lə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 52,931), San Diego co., S Calif., a suburb of San Diego; inc. 1912. It is a retail center and a popular residence for upper- and middle-income professionals in the San Diego area. Junior High on which to build the fifth high school. But in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , district officials are running out of spots on which to install the 61 portable classrooms that Lee was authorized to order, he said. PORTABLE CLASSROOMS IN THE WILLIAM S. HART UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: School Current number To be added this school year La Mesa Junior High 0 5 Arroyo Seco Junior High 142 Placerita Junior High 10 0 Sierra Vista Junior High 0 0 Valencia High School 0 10 Saugus High School 19 0 Hart High School Hart High School may refer to:
Canyon High School Canyon High School can refer to:
ENROLLMENT IN THE WILLIAM S. HART UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT TOTAL ENROLLMENT: 13,996 as of December La Mesa Junior High 1,186 Arroyo Seco Junior High 1,409 Placerita Junior High 1,187 Sierra Vista Junior High 900 Valencia High School 2,304 Saugus High School 2,124 Hart High School 2,207 Canyon High School 2,143 Other (x) 536 (x) Bowman Continuation High School A continuation high school is an alternative to a comprehensive high school primarily for students who are considered at-risk of not graduating at the normal pace. The requirements to graduate are the same but the scheduling is more flexible to allow students to earn their credits , The Learning Post and independent study Source: William S. Hart Union High School District CAPTION(S): 2 Charts CHART: (1) Portable classrooms in the William S. Hart Union High School District (see text) (2) Enrollment in the William S. Hart Union High School District (see text) |
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