Drive down Old Pasco Road, and there’s not a lot of traffic to contend with — yet.
That’s likely to change when the combination high school-middle school being built by Pasco County Schools opens, slated for August 2017.
Crews have cleared the trees and prepped the land for a school now known as High School GGG, but it will actually serve students in grades six through 12.
(B.C.Manion/Staff Photo)
The district needs to relieve crowding at Wiregrass Ranch High School and Wesley Chapel High School, and may even send some students from Pasco High School to the new high school, once it opens, said Ray Bonti, assistant superintendent of support services.
But, it also needs to reduce crowding at John Long and Weightman middle schools.
Since the district can’t afford to build a new high school and a new middle school, it has decided to share the facilities at the new school, which will be located on the west side of Old Pasco Road, near Overpass Road.
The school is being built for 1,900 students and carries a price tag of $62 million.
A committee will be meeting in about a year to recommend boundaries for the new school.
The district has a couple of hundreds of acres at the site, so it has plenty of room to build a middle school there, once it has the money.
Crowding is so significant at Wiregrass Ranch High that it went to a 10-period day this year, to manage the number of students who are on campus at the same time.
Published November 11, 2015
