But an advisory committee that reviewed potential real estate concluded that there aren’t any properties on the market that would work for the high school as it’s envisioned now. Opponents of siting a high school in Gird Valley have urged the district to consider alternate spots. It would be appropriate to have older high school kids away from the middle school.” People are concerned that that could also present a safety issue…. “We have sixth-grade children, age 11 going on 12 years old, mixed in on the same campus with 17- and 18-year old kids.

“A lot of people are concerned about the age differential,” he said. Interaction between younger and older students is also a potential problem, he said. He said having both the middle and high school at that site poses safety problems in the event of a fire evacuation. Our concern is that the two-story building the children are in… was designed and built for middle school students, and it is over capacity.” “We have a responsibility to educate those children, and we have a responsibility to put them in safe facilities. “We have over 700 homes being built in Bonsall territory,” Jones said. It’s going to take a team effort and a group of people to begin planning.”įor now, the district’s high school students share a site with Sullivan Middle School on West Lilac Road, but officials say the school will soon need its own campus to accommodate projected increases in enrollment. “To open up our minds and ask ourselves what is a good option for our high schools students. “The wisest thing for me to do is to bring in facilities experts and financial experts from the county, from our own staff, from the board of trustees,” Jones said. Given the two-time defeat, the district will have to evaluate its options, with the help of outside experts and incoming school board members, said Superintendent David Jones. The losing bond bid leaves the district scrambling for alternatives to construct a campus that would serve future high school students as the community grows.

Earlier efforts to build a school at the site also fell short. This is the second go-around for that proposal a similar, $58 million measure on the 2016 ballot was defeated by a much narrower margin of 49.37 percent to 50.63 percent. Measure EE, which would have funded construction of a campus for Bonsall High School, failed by nearly 18 percentage points, with just 41.02 percent of voters in favor, compared to 58.98 percent opposed. This story was updated to reflect the fact that the proposed site for Bonsall High School falls within the community of Fallbrook.The defeat of Bonsall Unified School District’s $38 million school bond initiative dealt a crippling blow to plans for a new high school in the rural, North County community. 'We're constantly fighting to hold onto a little piece of heaven.' 'When you compared Gird Valley to San Francisco, Los Angeles or Orange County, it's all trees and green,' said resident Teresa Platt, who opposes the plan. They would like to see the school board find a different site for the high school, and sell the Gird Road property as a mitigation bank, noting that 16.4 acres of the parcel was identified as critical habitat for endangered arroyo toad. Instead, that site will be developed as a vineyard, a use that residents said is more in keeping with the community's rural character.

Planning for the new arrivals has become a top priority for the school district, and a concern for Gird Valley residents, who last year fended off a proposed housing subdivision at the shuttered Fallbrook Golf Course. Since the widening of State Route 76, more housing developments have cropped up, and others are on the way in the I-15 corridor, bringing new families and students with them. Tucked into valleys south of Fallbrook, Bonsall is laced with country roads that wind through ranchettes, nurseries and orchards. The debate over the high school location is one of the growing pains for the rural community.

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