TRYING TO FIND ROOM DISTRICT PLANNING FOR GROWTH SPURT.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - 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 is bracing for as many as 5,000 new students in the next three years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time product of a baby boomlet baby boomlet n. An increase in the birthrate that is smaller than a baby boom, especially that in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. making its way through the school system. The district is anticipating 975 to 1,000 new students this year, 1,300 to 1,400 next year, 1,600 in 2005 and 1,000 in 2006. ``It's part of a national trend, children of baby boomers See generation X. . There's been a bubble of kids, a blip of kids that has grown wider and larger,'' said Larry Freise, coordinator of attendance and special projects. ``Every high school is bracing for this. Once we survive the wave, we will be in pretty good shape.'' The district ended last school year with nearly 19,000 students. To help plan for the incoming students, the high school board last week renewed the contract of a demographic firm, whose work last year helped the district decide where to locate its eighth comprehensive high school. The district will pay Davis Demographics $32,400 from developer fees to do further research about population trends to assist in determining the site of a ninth high school and the need to shift attendance boundaries. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a district staff report, tentative tract maps on file will add more than 4,900 homes to the 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 . ``This continued rapid growth, coupled with the age of present data used to make projections, necessitates the need to renew the demographic data, thereby improving the accuracy and reliability of long-range growth projections,'' it says. The district is thinking of placing the ninth high school in southeast Palmdale, somewhere east of 40th Street East and south of Palmdale Boulevard. The district's seventh high school, Knight High School, is under construction at 70th Street East and Avenue R-8 in Littlerock. The eighth, Eastside High School Eastside High School or East Side High School can refer to:
``The idea was we had to relieve pressure at three schools, Highland, Palmdale and Knight. Knight by the fourth year will be at capacity. If there is no relief, all three schools will grow beyond 4,000 by 2009,'' Freise said. While funding for Eastside High will come from the district's local bond and a state match, financing for the ninth high school is uncertain, especially since modernization work at Palmdale and Quartz Hill high schools Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). came in more than $9 million over budget. ``It causes a problem with high school number nine. It's $9.4 million that we can't apply to that school. We have to make up the difference somewhere,'' Freise said. The cost of Knight High School is $67 million. Eastside High will cost about $70 million, and the ninth campus is projected to cost $73 million. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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