UNDER CONSTRUCTION; COLE SCHOOL WILL HAVE LIBRARY, LABS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer Work is progressing on construction of Cole Middle School's long-awaited new campus on 20 acres at 30th Street East and Avenue I. The new $9.3 million Cole Middle School, named after the late Gifford C. Cole, a longtime school board member who died in 1991, will house about 1,000 students. The campus will include a gymnasium gymnasium In Germany, a state-maintained secondary school that prepares pupils for higher academic education. This type of nine-year school originated in Strasbourg in 1537. , a library, computer labs and science labs. Opened in the late 1980s to meet enrollment growth brought on by 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 building boom, Cole Middle School is now in the original Eastside School building. Because of its origin as an elementary school elementary school: see school. , Cole has had no gymnasium, and converted classrooms have served as the library and science labs. Half of the price for the new school will be paid by the state, and half by the district. The district's share will come from a bond issue approved by Eastside voters in November 1997. Changing locations with the middle school will be the Eastside district office, which is located next to the current Cole campus on Avenue H at 70th Street East. District officials will move into relocatable buildings A building designed to be readily moved, erected, disassembled, stored, and reused. All types of buildings or building forms designed to provide relocatable capabilities are included in this definition. next to the new Cole. Once the new middle school opens, the old Cole campus will be renovated with new heating, air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. , paint and alarms. Then it will reopen for elementary school pupils. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1 -- color) A construction crew works on the new library being built on the Gifford C. Cole Middle School campus, at 30th Street East and Avenue I. (2 -- color) A multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective building is being built at Cole Middle School. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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