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Capistrano Unified School District has begun construction of Las Flores School, a $25-million campus set to open in January 1998.
On 20 acres at Antonio and Oso parkways, Las Flores will be both a kindergarten through fifth-grade elementary school and a sixth- through eighth-grade middle school.
The school will be the first that Capistrano Unified has built in the community. Funding for construction is coming from Mello-Roos taxes and state bond funds.
Though boundaries for attendance at the new school have not yet been drawn, officials said they expect the middle school to ease crowding at Fred Newhart Middle School in Mission Viejo.
The start of construction is “very positive news for the area,” said Jackie Price, a spokeswoman for the school district.
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