Portable School to Be Built to Meet Enrollment Surge
A 72% enrollment increase over the last 12 years has prompted the Hawthorne School District to move ahead with plans to build a portable school until a new middle school is constructed.
The district plans to spend $2 million to set up a 20-classroom portable school next year. Sara Sellars, a district spokeswoman, said the district plans to send sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to the campus until a school is constructed with funds from the $28-million bond measure approved by voters in June.
The portable school is planned for the former Hawthorne Christian Day School site on Prairie Avenue. Sellars said the permanent school will be built at the same location.
Sellars said that the district hopes to have the new middle school completed in three years. The district, which has eight schools that serve 8,536 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, also is planning to build an elementary school.
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