Board OKs Pay Raises, Expansion of High School

A solution to overcrowding at Woodbridge High School and a pay raise for Irvine Unified School District administrators were approved during a special meeting of the Board of Education.

In a unanimous vote, the five-member school board this week directed the district to hire an architect to draw up a master plan to expand Woodbridge High by 300 seats, bringing the total number to 1,500. The board also directed that the plan include provisions for eventually expanding the school to serve 2,400 students. Its present enrollment is 1,200.

Although the project will not go forward until state funds can be secured to pay for it, Supt. A. Stanley Corey said, the district is eager to begin the expansion within the next two years.

The raise for administrative personnel was approved 3 to 2. Included in the 7% net increase is a 3% cost-of-living adjustment and an across-the-board 4% step increase.

Although no raise was granted to Corey, leaving him at his present annual salary of $64,980, assistant superintendents will now earn annual salaries of from $51,993 to $56,080. Elementary school principals will earn from $37,573 to $45,715 a year. Junior high school principals will earn $39,901 to $47,560, and senior high school principals will make between $44,023 and $53,560.

For the assistant superintendents, the pay raise is retroactive to July 1, 1984; the other administrators’ raises are retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year.