Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, September 16, 2016, 1:08 PM
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High schools face looming classroom shortage
Original post made on Sep 16, 2016
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, September 16, 2016, 1:08 PM
Comments (13)
Posted by Parent
a resident of another community
on Sep 16, 2016 at 1:58 pm
a resident of another community
on Sep 16, 2016 at 1:58 pm
It's nice that LAHS has their own baseball field and TWELVE tennis courts but is that more important than classrooms? Seems like a very inefficient allocation of valuable land.
Posted by What about opening tranfers?
a resident of Rex Manor
on Sep 16, 2016 at 2:20 pm
a resident of Rex Manor
on Sep 16, 2016 at 2:20 pm
I've heard it is not easy to transfer from one school to another. Shouldn't they consider allowing more students at MVHS? We are zoned for LAHS but I'd be interested in having the choice between the two schools.
Posted by Build more houses
a resident of Jackson Park
on Sep 16, 2016 at 2:25 pm
a resident of Jackson Park
on Sep 16, 2016 at 2:25 pm
If LAHS still has a more comfortable accommodating productive school, that attracts better teachers, it COULD be because Los Altos has not built a bunch of jobs into their city, and then given developers free reign to build as much highly profitable high density housing as possible.
It may take time but we will force Los Altos to give up their car concentric life style. ABAG is only a first step. These processes take time but have the big corporate developer money and city staff interests behind them.
Posted by Member
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 16, 2016 at 4:12 pm
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 16, 2016 at 4:12 pm
What a shocker, we continue to build build build and destroy a once great little town, without regard to quality of life, traffic, congestion, pollution and zoning laws. But hey Prometheus is making top dollar so it's even right? Stop building we don't need more housing we need to create quality of life infrastructure for the housing we have.
Posted by 2 stories?
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Sep 16, 2016 at 6:13 pm
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Sep 16, 2016 at 6:13 pm
Maybe they could consider constructing 2 story buildings? Same footprint.
Posted by Member
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Sep 16, 2016 at 10:51 pm
a resident of Blossom Valley
on Sep 16, 2016 at 10:51 pm
No one else sees a big field between the buildings and the tennis courts? It is currently used for soccer which can be played on the football field. There is a baseball field on the left already. You are welcome.
Posted by Cubberley
a resident of another community
on Sep 17, 2016 at 8:47 am
a resident of another community
on Sep 17, 2016 at 8:47 am
And there sits Cubberley. Couldn't PAUSD and MVLA work out a way to jointly use that space? Maybe use it for alternative tracks, such as vocational programs or middle college.
Posted by MVHS Grad
a resident of North Whisman
on Sep 17, 2016 at 12:52 pm
a resident of North Whisman
on Sep 17, 2016 at 12:52 pm
They should open a third high school campus. Ideally in downtown Mountain View on High School Way. Somehow that seems familiar ...
Posted by Curious
a resident of The Crossings
on Sep 17, 2016 at 2:04 pm
a resident of The Crossings
on Sep 17, 2016 at 2:04 pm
Is there a graph anywhere showing the growth over the next number of years?
Posted by Space
a resident of another community
on Sep 17, 2016 at 2:51 pm
a resident of another community
on Sep 17, 2016 at 2:51 pm
This is just about money for construction. There is enough room for the classrooms but they need tp be built. They have already begun to use 2 story buildings, but just barely. One option would be to replace existing portables with a 2 story pre-built wing of new classrooms. That might be constructed fairly rapidly, but it's still going to remove some existing rooms during construction. That's the problem.
Posted by Grass Field
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Sep 18, 2016 at 4:36 pm
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Sep 18, 2016 at 4:36 pm
@member
A few details you neglected to consider...
The grass field you reference is used for girls softball and boys and girls lacrosse teams (which all run concurrently with track and field...season timing set by the state) In addition, during the soccer season, there are 4 separate teams - 2 each for boys and girls.
Posted by Source of Growth?
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Sep 18, 2016 at 6:11 pm
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Sep 18, 2016 at 6:11 pm
The article did not specify the source of the new student growth. Could it be all the new high density housing that we were assured would not impact school numbers? It would be very nice to understand the source of this growth and if it is just a bump for a few years or will it become the new average?
Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Sep 19, 2016 at 11:10 am
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Sep 19, 2016 at 11:10 am
I have closely studied how the High School district has managed their last school bond facilities construction. It was very well managed. (thank you Mountain View's Jim Pollard for his Bond Oversight Committee work). LAHS has a well thought and constructed (it seems to me) NEW TWO STORY multi-classroom building. The district management went with less expensive one story new building (in a former 'front lawn" and kept the well-maintained portable classrooms.
I like the suggestion of MVHS going permanent-modularized=construction two story! Somewhere north of $6M for a ten classroom project, with standard configuration classroom. Long life. Or, at $400 PSF (20% savings) a standardized panel/component two story building in a "design/build" contract with Blach Construction (San Jose).
like San Carlos middle school, Web Link
Port the Portables" to a field or tennis courts", and build in that back corner? Two story AWAY from the residential neighbors, just like the neighborhood friendly way at LAHS.
Black work in 2014 Web Link
BT:, MVLA portable buildings have been maintained so well they almost NEVER LEAK! (yeah Joe White, may you retirement have sunshine)
They cad do it. The MVLA CBO administration is usually top notch (IMO).
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