ANAHEIM : School Will Ease Crowding
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Work is scheduled to begin next week on a new elementary school that will help ease, but by no means alleviate, problems caused by a growing student population in the Anaheim City School District.
“This is not going to solve the overcrowded conditions,” said Maria-Elena Romero, assistant superintendent of business administration. But at least it will help, she said.
A minimum of five more elementary schools are need, Romero said, to accommodate current students and new ones expected over the next five years.
The district gained 866 students last year, Supt. Jack Sarnicky said. Nearly 800 more students are expected for the 1995-96 academic year, he said, which would hike the enrollment to more than 18,200.
This follows a decade-long pattern of growth the equivalent of one school population every year. Officials have brought in portable classrooms and adjusted boundary lines to shift students into less-crowded schools.
The new school, which has yet to be named, will be created by modifying the former district headquarters in the 800 block of South Olive Street. The $1.6-million cost of the project is being funded by the district and the city.
The district’s headquarters now are at 1001 S. East St.
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