WORK TO BEGIN ON MIDDLE SCHOOL; CEREMONY KICKS OFF CONSTRUCTION FOR LANCASTER FACILITY.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Eastside Union School District officials broke ground ceremoniously cer·e·mo·ni·ous adj. 1. Strictly observant of or devoted to ceremony, ritual, or etiquette; punctilious: "borne on silvery trays by ceremonious world-weary waiters" Financial Times. Monday for a $9.5 million school that will get the district's sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders out of facilities designed for younger children. The new middle school - to be named, like the one it replaces, for former trustee Gifford C. Cole - is scheduled to open in late 1999 at Avenue I and 30th Street East with financing from a bond issue approved by Eastside voters in November. ``It will give us room. They will have a gym. They will have science labs and a library. It will all be better facilities,'' the trustees' president, Martha Johnson, said after a traditional ceremony of turning shovelfuls of dirt. Located on 20 acres that once held a low-rent mobile-home park, the school will house 700 students, with room for 1,000 after a second phase is built. The 5,500-square-foot first phase 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. , cafeteria cafeteria: see restaurant. , library, video facilities, science labs and an industrial technology laboratory with computers, officials said. The bond issue, which adds $32 per $100,000 assessed value to property owners' annual tax bills, also will finance a new elementary school elementary school: see school. and modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, of the district's two other campuses. Opened in the late 1980s to meet enrollment growth bought 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 and in portable classrooms at 70th Street East and Avenue H. Because of its origin as an elementary school, Cole has had no gymnasium, and its students have used converted classrooms for a library and science laboratories. Eastside School's elementary classrooms are in portable buildings adjoining the original building. Once the new middle school opens, the old Cole campus will get new heating and ventilation systems ventilation system Public health An air system designed to maintain negative pressure and exhaust air properly, to minimize the spread of TB and other respiratory pathogens in a health care facility , fire and burglar BURGLAR. One who commits a burglary. (q. v.) alarm systems, lighting, windows and insulation. Then it will be reopened for elementary pupils. For about $90,000, the district has acquired land at 40th Street East and Avenue J-8 from the city for a new elementary school. Expected to cost about $6.5 million, it would handle 550 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. No date has been set for the opening of the elementary school. CAPTION(S): Drawing DRAWING: (Color) Ground was broken Monday for a proposed middle school, shown in a drawing. |
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