Scripps Ranch High Construction Starts
Construction of the first new San Diego Unified School District high school in a decade officially began with a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday.
The $24.2-million Scripps Ranch High School, scheduled to be completed by August 1993, will accommodate about 2,000 students in 67 classrooms, of which 20 are relocatable. The school at Scripps Ranch Boulevard and Scripps Lake Drive will include a full stadium with bleachers, a media center and theater, and will be fully wired for a computer network.
“From an architectural point of view, it is really different from the last generation of high schools that we did,” said Jim Ritzdorf, assistant architect with the school district.
Unlike the last high school built in the city, University City High, the new school will have many more windows providing natural light and ventilation, Ritzdorf said.
“We’re getting away from the closed-off campuses of the ‘70s. In hindsight, they seem kind of crazy, but, in hindsight, a lot of things from the ‘70s probably look a little crazy,” Ritzdorf said of the old designs, which relied heavily on air conditioning and artificial light.
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