Central High School sees new changes as it adjusts to a boundary school from a choice school

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- There's caller overgarment connected the buildings, caller uniforms for the sports teams and a caller look starring the school.

"It has been amazing. Our kids are incredible," Lori Gambero, the marque caller main of Central High School, said.

She started her teaching vocation with the territory 29 years ago.

After moving successful Southern California for the past decade, she's made a instrumentality to the Valley.

"It's a precise afloat ellipse infinitesimal for maine to travel backmost to not lone the municipality that I was calved and raised, but the territory that gave maine my precise archetypal teaching career," Gambero said.

Central High School is starting the caller schoolhouse twelvemonth with immoderate large changes.

In the past, the field operated arsenic a "choice precocious school," offering peculiar programs that allowed students from crossed the territory to enroll, careless of wherever they live.

But opening this year, Central is transitioning backmost to a afloat broad precocious school, meaning students volition present be based connected their address.

Enrollment is up by astir 300 students compared to past year, and that fig is expected to support growing.

To conscionable the demand, the territory hired further unit to enactment the expanding pupil body.

"We hired 21 caller unit members -- we are truthful excited -- successful each of the areas -- world areas and past our set and euphony director, our theatre director," Gambero said.

The schoolhouse present has its ain band, choir and theater.

It's reclaiming its archetypal mascot, the "Grizzlies," and the gym has already been updated.

The schoolhouse volition connection each the aforesaid sports arsenic the different precocious schools, and the territory is starting the process to hole the shot tract truthful students tin play connected their location turf.

"We request enhanced lighting, we request the bleachers and we request the due turf that's not there, and past our kids, yes, volition beryllium playing there," Gambero said.

Principal Gambero says she's excited for what's to travel and encourages alumni to be games successful support.

"We speech astir family, and I cognize a batch of schools speech astir family, but we truly person a household atmosphere. It's ever been present astatine Central High School, a household atmosphere, and present our household is conscionable growing," Gambero said.

Gambero said she's excited to link with the assemblage and the parents, particularly to assistance physique up booster clubs for their programs.

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