Alpine School District buys $12.9M land for future high school amid potential district split

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The land sits just south of Brookhaven Elementary, which feeds students into both of the area’s current high schools, Westlake and Cedar Valley. But the district has yet to secure the funds needed to build a high school on the new plot.

Vacant land northwest of Utah Lake, near Brookhaven Elementary, is pictured on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. The Alpine School District is investing $12.9 million to buy 50 acres of the plot to build a new high school.

It sits just south of Brookhaven Elementary, which feeds students into both of the area’s current high schools, Westlake and Cedar Valley. But the district has yet to secure the funds needed to build a high school on the new plot.a $600 million bond in 2022 that would have funded the construction of new schools across the district, said the board’s vice president, Julie King.“but as to how we’re going to come up with the dollars for that, for the actual construction, is still undetermined.

By 2027, Cedar Valley’s enrollment may be closer to 4,000 students, and Westlake may see an increase of approximately 650 students, Desert Sky Elementary principal Aaron Stevenson visits with students on the playground of the new elementary school in Eagle Mountain on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. The $80 million school, which has not yet been named, will be located north of State Route 73 near the Members of the Alpine School District Board of Education, from left, Sara Hacken, Superintendent Shane Farnsworth, Sarah Beeson and Stacey Bateman, during a public meeting on Friday, June 30, 2023.

 

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