High School of Arts May Get New Facility
The Orange County High School of the Arts program may soon be moving into new facilities.
Trustees of the Los Alamitos Unified School District this week gave preliminary approval to plans to construct a 95,000-square-foot building for the arts school on a parcel of land between McAuliffe Middle School and Los Alamitos Elementary School.
The High School of the Arts currently shares the facilities of Los Alamitos High School. District officials said relocation of the arts school is becoming necessary, because Los Alamitos High is overcrowded and student enrollment is growing.
There are about 480 pupils from Orange, Los Angeles and other nearby counties enrolled in the school now. Assistant Supt. David Hatton said that with its own facility, the school could grow to an ideal enrollment level of 650 students.
The cost to build and move into the new facility is estimated at $15 million--a cost that will be borne, Hatton said, by the Orange County High School of the Arts Foundation, a private fund-raising group.
The foundation already has $1.6 million in donations and believes it can raise the balance, Hatton said.
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