SANTA ANA : District to Build Another School
The Santa Ana Unified School District, which has gained 3,300 students this year, has announced the groundbreaking for yet another elementary school.
District officials, including school board President Audrey Yamagata-Noji and District Supt. Rudy M. Castruita, will attend a special kickoff ceremony for George Carver Elementary School at 10 a.m. Monday.
Carver Elementary will be built on a four-acre site at 1405 W. Santa Ana Blvd. The school is scheduled to open in early 1992 and officials say it will relieve overcrowding at Fremont, Wilson and Santiago elementary schools.
The school will have 19 classrooms, a media center and a 3,000-square-foot multipurpose building.
Orange County’s largest school district has been building schools at a rate of about two per year to keep up with a student population that has grown from 29,000 students in 1980 to a current enrollment of about 45,000. Enrollment is expected to continue to climb and top 62,000 by the year 2000.
In the past 18 months, the district has opened a new high school and two elementary schools, and has established a temporary elementary school made up of portable classrooms.
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