University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 15, 1987
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Campus/Area
Lawrence High plans to expand
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Staff writer
Lawrence High School is bracing for an enrollment boom, administrators say, and plans for expansion are in the works.
Superintendent Dan Neueswander said yesterday that the school was forming a committee to study expansion options.
The committee will report to the school board in April its recommendation and how to expand Lawrence High, the largest high school in the state.
A key change will be the addition of the ninth grade to the high school sometime in the next five years. It will include only grades 10 through 12.
Neuenswander said the committee would consider many options, including:
Expansion on the current 40-acre campus at 1901 Louisiana St.
Building a second high school for grades nine to 12 at a 50-acre site west of Lawrence. The school anticipated the need to grow and purchased the land in December 1968 at a cost of $136,916.
Using the new land to build a middle school for grades nine and 10 and keeping grades 11 and 12 on the current campus.
With 1,803 students, Lawrence
High is at capacity and pulling at the seams. But it has a little more breathing room this year. The administration center was moved off the 19th Street campus to 1919 Delaware St. The school bought the land and offered for $315,000 to make way for six more classrooms, Neuenswander said.
But he said he was happy with the long-term growth in the school.
"It is a stable, comfortable rate of growth," he said, comparing it to the sprawling growth in cities such as Olathe.
The move to a ninth to 12th-grade high school would be a positive one, administrators said.
The Lawrence school district is one of the few Kansas districts to still lump seventh to ninth graders in a curriculum, an assistant principal of curriculum and instruction, said the school was out of step in this respect.
"We're faced with a real problem," Rife said.
Neuenswander said research had proven that junior high schools were better suited to a seventh- and eighth-grade format.
Shorter classes, and more of them, better accommodate the shorter attention spans of seventh and eighth grade students, he said.
Catalina Garcia, Lawrence High School sophomore, plays the flute, while school's bursting enrollment, were waiting for their ride at Stouffer Place Amy Etes, Lawrence High School sophomore, listens. The two, part of the apartments Tuesday evening.
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