School Building Improvement Bond Program

School Building Improvement
Bond Program

School Building Improvement
Bond Program

  • School modernization and improvement projects will touch almost every school over the coming months with security upgrades, new roofs, asbestos remediation, new fire alarms, ADA improvements and a seismic retrofit.

    In addition, construction has begun on a modernized Madison High School and a new Kellogg Middle School, plus a newly modernized Grant High School will re-open at the start of the school year. Besides construction projects, design work is continuing on the Lincoln High rebuild project that is slated to begin in early 2020 and on the Benson Polytechnic modernization project. Benson construction will get underway in the summer of 2021.

    New seismically strengthened roofs are underway at Sitton and Rigler Elementary Schools and Jackson Middle. In addition, Rigler and Rose City Park will get new elevators. Work began this summer on a two year seismic retrofit of Hayhurst Elementary that will bring the school up to immediate occupancy rating. Jefferson High will receive a fire alarm upgrades and a new fire sprinkler system. Lead paint stabilization work will also be in full swing this summer with improvements taking place at 30 sites. The first phase of lead paint work will concentrate on pre-kindergarten through second-grade classrooms and is scheduled to be completed at the end of this summer.

    This summer, six schools will receive low lead drinking water stations: Arleta, Duniway, Jefferson, Llewellyn, Rigler and Robert Gray. This work is a pilot program that seeks to improve water quality and save the district money by avoiding expensive and disruptive pipe replacements within the walls. To see the status of drinking fixtures at your school, click on this chart and this schedule for when future work will be accomplished.

    Last but not least, work on the first group of 26 schools getting security upgrades will begin this summer. Work on the second group of schools will get underway in late summer, and the third group will follow on a few months later. All of the work will conclude in 2020.

Bond Community Engagement Slide Show

FDW 9_21 Students in design teams at work #2

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    For more information about any school building improvement bond projects email schoolmodernization@pps.net
    Or call us  at 503-916-2222