Work begins in Fairborn on preparation for region’s newest high school building
First steps takenon $65-70 million project funded through levy.
Work has started to FAIRBORN— clear debris from the land that will become the future site of Fairborn High School, according to the school district.
“If you drive, walk or bike by the future site of Fairborn High
School onCommerceCenterBoulevard, you will see that we are starting to clear brush and undergrowth fromthe land for our new school building, performing arts center, and athletics complex!” the district posted Monday on Facebook.
The school itself is in the design phase, butwork has begun to prepare the land, the district said. They areworking with Fairborn, theOhioEPAandtheOhioDepartment of Transportation to safely remove undergrowth in an environmentally healthy way.
The district can pay for the school with a levy thatwas passed in November. The 5.83-mill combined bond and levy will cost the owner of a $100,000home about $204 per year.
The proceedswould fund construction of a $65-70million high school, performing arts center and athletic complex.
Pam Gayheart, a spokesman for Fairborn schools, said when
the high school construction is completed, the high school students will move to the new school and Baker Middle School students will move to the old Fairborn High School on Dayton-Yellow Springs Road.
“The new Fairborn Intermediate School will be constructed at the site that the old school sat on — they tore down the old building and construction is underway,” she said.
Gayheartsaidwhenmoney becomes available from the state, a new middle school will be built next to the high school on Commerce Center Boulevard.
Fairborn voters approved a 2.95-mill bond levy in 2016 to build primary and intermediate schools. The primary school will replace a 60-year-old building at 4W. Dayton-YellowSpringsRoad, and it’s being built next to the playground at the current primary school.
The new building will be about two stories tall.
The current high school was built in 1971.