For the upcoming school year, the bus bays in the back of the school may be turned into new classrooms for students due to overpopulation. While two of these classes are already designated for school use, administration is striving to gain the other three unused rooms in order to help stop teachers from having to “travel.”
It is easy to see the importance of these classrooms and buildings, especially since the school is already at 90% capacity. Because of numerous computer labs and the on-campus daycare, the school has lost space for students and staff on school grounds.
Next year, the school is expecting an influx of around 700 freshmen, outnumbering the 515 graduating seniors this year, which will only lead to higher classroom rates, resulting in a demand for more teachers and space.
Principal Dan Serrano explained, “We are over capacity so I am asking the district, why we can’t use those unused classrooms?”
Adding these classes to the school campus would be beneficial to students as well, because of the introduction of new courses such as, mechanics, programming, engineering, and robotics.
AP Physics teacher Andrea Strock clarified, “I think we need auto shop and mechanics, those are the technical trades that won’t be going away anytime soon.”
In addition to new rooms, vice principal Joe Greene gave details which demonstrated the layout of the bus bay by sharing that there is indeed an auto shop intended for school use currently being used for storage.
Along with overpopulation, the growth of the STEM program will undoubtedly force administration to add these classrooms to the campus and these courses to the curriculum.
