The administration, counseling, world languages, and social studies departments will temporarily relocate to the 30’s building and other locations on campus prior to demolition of the 10’s building at the end of this school year. The new theater will take the location of the 10’s building.

“When school gets out in June, all of [the 10’s] building by that time will be packed up and moved most likely over to the 30’s building temporarily,” principal Adam Littlefield said. “There may be some teachers [in the 10’s building] that are going to be moving in certain locations.”

But, before the new theater, comes the STEAM building, scheduled to open Aug. 2020.

“The hope is that by the rainy season, which we hope is by the end of Thanksgiving, we will have the first floor complete in terms of the outside so that they can start working on the inside,” Littlefield said.

Current juniors will get to experience the STEAM building, but not the new theater, which is scheduled to open Aug. 2021 after they graduate. Junior Laney Tellegen said that she is excited for the new STEAM building and to take classes there her senior year, as well as to see the new theater after she graduates.

“I hope that [the new theater] can accumulate the memories that the other theater had,” Tellegen said. “My younger sister is going to be in the acting program, so she will get to use the new theater and it will be so much fun, but it is kind of sad for the junior grade.”

While the STEAM department will be greeted with a brand new building at the start of the 2020-2021 school year, the 20’s and 30’s buildings will also undergo repairs to match the novelty of the new building and stay up to date. Littlefield said that there is interest in new carpeting and heating in addition to the cooling units recently installed.

The administration office will be located on the first floor of the STEAM building. The counseling office is planned to relocate to the 20’s building once the math and science teachers have moved into their designated building.

“It’s great to know that we have a place,” counselor Ashley English said. “We’ve been concerned about where we were going to be.”

Meanwhile, the final locations of the world languages and social studies departments are still unofficial.

“We’re still working on that,” Littlefield said.

Working part-time this year, history teacher Melanie McCauley said that she is teaching in four different classrooms and hopes that there will be enough classrooms for all the teachers. STEAM department teachers have top priority moving into their new building, but there will be about seven general classrooms available for non-STEAM classes, Littlefield said. Other classrooms will also be available in the 20’s building, but Littlefield said that the classes are not yet decided.

“As long as I have a classroom, I don’t really care where it is,” McCauley said.

While the moves are ultimately the administration’s decision, English said that the counseling department was able to give input about their preferences for the new office.

“The way that we are envisioning it, it will be a perfect space,” she said.

English said that the new office will be more spacious. It will also include a new addition to what the current counseling office offers: a conference room. The counselors, the assistant principal, and the college and career center will all remain together.

“We haven’t always been physically near each other,” English said. “Now that we are, we find that there is a lot of benefit to that in terms of collaborating with one other so we are glad that we will be near one another again.”

“I hope that our department is in the same building,” McCauley said, “[It is] always great to have departments stick together.”

The new counseling office will take one of the existing classrooms as well as the two science offices in the 20’s building. The classroom will be converted into counseling offices. One of the current science offices will become assistant principal Irma Muñoz’s office. The other will comprise of the new conference room.

“We are feeling pretty good about it,” English said.