San Fernando Valley : NEW DIGS
Glendale has an $11-million solution to school overcrowding and outdated equipment: a new classroom building that will help Glendale High School make the transition to a four-year campus.
The four-story, 85,000-square-foot building will be used for classes in science, math and other subjects, enabling the campus to absorb about 1,100 ninth-grade students when the new school year opens Monday.
Glendale High, with enrollment jumping from 2,200 to 3,300, will be the last of three high schools in the Glendale Unified School District to convert to a four-year schedule as part of a districtwide plan begun in the 1980s to ease crowing at the middle school level.
The new building’s 38 classrooms contain closed-circuit televisions, computers and computer hookups, and are more spacious than the campus’s older buildings.
“I have to admit,” said math teacher Fred Blattner, “the first thing that came to mind was, now I’ll be able to work in air-conditioned comfort.”
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