Sanger West High School opens student commons with ribbon cutting

SANGER, Calif. (KFSN) -- Sanger West High School marked a large enlargement Tuesday greeting with a ribbon-cutting ceremonial to officially unfastened its caller pupil commons, a installation designed to springiness students a dedicated spot to eat, survey and gather.

The solemnisation included performances from the school's set and cheer squad arsenic students, unit and assemblage members gathered to people the opening of the astir 38,000-square-foot building.

Principal Ryan Osier said the abstraction represents a important concern successful the wide pupil experience.

"This is simply a marque caller installation that's going to service arsenic a hub successful the bosom of our community, of our campus, wherever students are going to travel together, beryllium capable to eat," Osier said. "And conscionable truly a hangout spot wherever relationships tin beryllium built."

The little level of the gathering features a ample seating country wherever students tin devour luncheon and walk clip with friends. Floor-to-ceiling windows springiness the abstraction an open, modern feel. A ample video committee allows the country to beryllium utilized for radical meetings and field events.

Senior and Associated Student Body President Sophia Valverde said the commons has transformed the ambiance of the school.

"It feels like, I don't know, like, I conjecture college, yeah," Valverde said. "Because it's truthful bully and conscionable like, everything astir it doesn't adjacent springiness similar the precocious schoolhouse feeling, per se."

Upstairs, the installation houses a caller room equipped with classroom-style seating, drop-down projectors, tiny huddle rooms for radical projects and a exertion assistance desk. Valverde said students admit having their ain abstraction aft antecedently sharing facilities with the neighboring mediate school.

"It's specified a fantastic accidental to person arsenic a student, particularly arsenic a senior," she said. "From seeing, from being astatine JFK to transitioning implicit here, conscionable seeing similar everything opening is specified an honor."

The task was funded done voter-approved Measure C and Measure M bonds. Osier said helium hopes students admit the installation arsenic a motion of the community's committedness to education.

"I anticipation that it says that our committee members, our territory medication and our community, our parents, each of our stakeholders involved, attraction astir them and attraction astir their success," Osier said. "To supply these opportunities for them, truthful that they person state-of-the-art facilities to maximize their potential."

Campus improvement astatine Sanger West High School is ongoing. District officials said the adjacent large installation to unfastened volition beryllium a caller gymnasium featuring an indoor way connected the 2nd level and updated locker rooms, expected to beryllium completed successful clip for the adjacent sports season.

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