Construction at future site of Clovis South High School on track thanks to voters

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- We are officially successful 2025, and that means the countdown is connected until the newest schoolhouse successful the Clovis Unified School District welcomes students connected campus.

In mid-October, the territory broke crushed connected the Terry Bradley Educational Center, which volition beryllium location to Clovis South High School and Phillip V. Sanchez Intermediate School.

Less than 3 months later, a batch has changed.

"This task is massive," Assistant Superintendent of Facilities Denver Stairs said.

With much than 200 operation workers connected tract immoderate fixed day, dense machinery is rolling, ample trucks are moving and the aboriginal location of Sanchez Intermediate is coming to life.

"The 2 buildings you spot down me, which are the world wings of the mediate school, volition beryllium open. The cafeteria, snack barroom and main office, each of that volition beryllium unfastened successful August," Stairs said.

Buildings volition proceed to unfastened arsenic the 2025-2026 schoolhouse twelvemonth progresses.

Stairs says roads astir the schoolhouse are besides being improved.

He says anterior to November, the aboriginal of the afloat 165-acre Terry Bradley Educational Center was successful limbo.

That's due to the fact that the terms of the task skyrocketed during the pandemic.

But now, things are backmost connected track, acknowledgment to voters.

"Thankfully, to our community, for transition of Measure A, we've been capable to determination guardant and proceed to program to physique the remainder of this schoolhouse and implicit it each the mode done and past we're excited, we get to present travel retired of the crushed with immoderate caller projects with Measure A," Stairs said.

One of those projects is starting plan enactment to modernize Nelson Elementary School.

Changes volition see a caller office, enactment successful the classrooms and updates to the room and multipurpose room.

The enslaved wealth volition besides adhd information and information measures crossed the territory with caller cameras and summation the fig of bollards.

Stairs says acknowledgment to a comparatively adust winter, truthful far, rainfall hasn't slowed the project.

He hopes staff, students and parents are excited astir what's to come.

"Here successful the adjacent fewer months, we're astatine a spot wherever a batch of worldly happens truly accelerated and we're present getting acceptable to commencement finishes connected the buildings. You're not going to spot thing truly happening due to the fact that it's each happening wrong the walls," Stairs said.

Construction is expected to beryllium implicit successful July, conscionable successful clip for teachers and administrators to determination successful and hole for the caller schoolhouse twelvemonth which begins successful August.

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