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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The countdown is connected astatine Clovis Unified School District — the brand-new Terry P. Bradley Educational Center is conscionable days distant from welcoming its archetypal students connected Aug. 18.
Named successful grant of a beloved erstwhile superintendent, the sprawling field volition beryllium location to the district’s sixth precocious schoolhouse and a caller intermediate school. Nearly 500 operation workers are putting the finishing touches connected the monolithic project.
“When you look astatine this field — conscionable the sheer size of the campus, the buildings — it’s incredible,” said Assistant Principal Denver Stairs. “I’ve been with Clovis Unified 26 years. I was a pupil here, graduated from Clovis West, and present to beryllium portion of opening this… it’s a afloat ellipse moment.”
The site, located astatine Leonard and East McKinley avenues, volition location Clovis South High School and Sanchez Middle School. Sanchez Middle School Principal Sonia Torossian said seventh- and eighth-graders volition commencement connected opening time alongside Clovis South’s archetypal people of freshmen.
Each year, the precocious schoolhouse volition adhd different people level until it’s afloat built retired successful the 2028–2029 schoolhouse year.
The spot was purchased successful 2007 and was the imaginativeness of then-Superintendent Terry P. Bradley. Bradley passed distant connected July 17, conscionable 5 weeks earlier the expansive opening.
“Dr. Bradley was 1 of our astir beloved administrators,” Torossian said. “He would beryllium truthful arrogant to spot this day.”
From the outside, the improvement appears arsenic 1 ample campus, but it volition run arsenic 2 abstracted schools. Amenities volition see a shot field, tennis courts, a contention gym, and a shot stadium.
“We’re excited,” Stairs said. “Both shot stadiums person tract houses, and we’ve incorporated them into the gym truthful they’ll beryllium shared spaces. It’s been a long, hard task to get here, but that’s thing Dr. Bradley ne'er shied distant from successful his career.”
