South Bay : Raiders Facility May Be Used as School

To accommodate increasing public school enrollment, the El Segundo Unified School District voted Tuesday to consider converting an Oakland Raiders training facility into a school.

The board has hired Gillis Architectural Associates to examine the building’s condition and estimate the cost of changes that would be needed to open it as a school.

According to Supt. Bill Manahan, enrollment has increased from 1,900 to more than 2,400 since 1990. “We can see three or four years down the line we’re going to have to reconfigure the way we provide for student enrollment by opening another building.”

Manahan said he expects to have a report by the end of the month. He plans to hold public hearings over the next several months about how the use the facility and pay for renovations.

“If the cost to renovate the junior high school was in the six-figure range, it would be very difficult for us to do that,” he said. “It may be that the board will have to ask the community to support that kind of renovation with some kind of tax.”