Council Hears Appeal for New School Site
About 200 students and representatives of Brethren Christian High School pleaded with the City Council this week to help them obtain permits for a new school site they hope to buy near the Los Alamitos racetrack.
“We don’t want to leave Cypress,” Principal Barrett Luketic said. “Please help us save this school.”
Brethren officials have leased a campus in the city from the Anaheim Union High School District since 1990. But the district is reopening the Orange Avenue campus for a technical school; Brethren must move at the end of the school year.
The private school may have to use several sites next year to meet the needs of about 400 students who have already enrolled without knowing where their school will be, Luketic said.
“Eventually we want to build a permanent facility,” he said. “And that’s why we are at the council meeting, to let them know we need their help by facilitating permits and other requests as we move toward the purchase of this property.”
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