Rosemead : High School to Be Renovated
Renovation of Rosemead High School is expected to get under way next month.
The El Monte Union High School District board approved a $3.3-million contract to renovate the aging school last week. The Board of Education voted to hire R.J. Lanthier Co. of San Diego County after the state approved funding for the district’s plan to upgrade the school.
Funding for the renovation came from the state under special legislation that provides money to update and make schools more than 40 years old more energy-efficient. Work at the school is expected to be complete by summer, 1995.
Principal Denton Todd said the 44-year-old school will be renovated in two stages. In the first phase, to be completed by June, 1994, 36 classrooms, the library and school cafeteria will be modernized with new electrical systems, lower ceilings, better windows and lights. In the second phase, the rest of the school will undergo similar renovation. At times the school’s 2,000 students will be housed in portable trailers on the car parking lot during construction.
About 1,000 students moved into the portables at the start of the semester. Administrators moved their offices to the collection of trailers this week. Rosemead High School is the district’s third school to receive state money for modernization.
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