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High school district builds new facility
New alternative high school to be completed in April
By Erin Mayes
Money from Measure C, a $95 million school-facilities bond that was passed by voters in November 1999, will be manifesting itself in an extremely visible way by April 2002.
Campbell Union High School District board members broke ground Oct. 24 on a $5 million project that will result in a brand new facility--Boynton High School, which will be located on a plot of land that served as a playing field for Blackford High School for many years.
Boynton High School will serve as an alternative school, similar to the way that Blackford High School is currently operating. When the construction is completed, the alternative high school students will be moved to the 22,000-square-foot location and the old site will be leased out, district officials said.
Blackford, which serves about 280 students and has been a continuation school for almost 12 years, is on the same plot of land on which Boynton will be built.
"It's quite exciting to see," Blackford Principal Karen Wagner said. "It'll be a very modern site and very adaptable to different situations."
Pat Gaffney, the assistant superintendent of business, said the district is in negotiations with Kehillah Jewish High School, a private school that is located in Palo Alto and is interested in leasing the old Blackford site.
The school's board members were scheduled to vote on whether to lease the site as master tenants at an Oct. 25 board meeting. The outcome of that meeting was not known at press time. Kehillah would have a three-year lease with the district and would probably sublease the site to other tenants.
Martin Dreiling, the principal architect for the project, said the school will be able to be completed fairly quickly--within six months--because the buildings are already nearly finished.
The buildings are similar to modulars but will have real roofs and stucco walls. Board members and architects alike emphasized that the buildings are not portable. Dreiling said Del Mar and Westmont high schools have similar buildings on their campuses. The structures are being built in a different city and will be moved to the site after the foundation has been laid.
"It's a really nice solution," Dreiling said. "It's a neat way to do these projects on a tight schedule."
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Campbell, California
