Santa Ana District Is Given Land for Magnet School
The Orange Unified School District has agreed to let the Santa Ana Unified School District annex a small part of its land for a possible performing arts campus.
The 15-acre parcel is too small for a regular high school and unsuitable for an elementary school because it is close to freeways, said Bill Flory, director of facilities and planning at Orange Unified.
The property, now vacant, is north of Memory Lane and west of Bristol Street, on the eastern edge of the Santa Ana River.
The Santa Ana district has agreed to admit qualified Orange Unified students if and when the magnet school is built, officials said.
Orange trustees voted 6 to 0 to allow the annexation, but stipulated that the land would revert to them if Santa Ana fails to build the high school within 10 years. The agreement would not involve any exchange of funds.
The county’s education department will have to hold public hearings and approve the deal before it becomes final, Flory said.
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