Thanks to growing enrollment, the Kamas-based district’s elementary, middle and high school will be well over capacity within the next five years. Officials hope voters will approve a $58.6 million bond to build a new high school, which would help disperse the student body between four schools to better accommodate continued growth.
“The alternative is we add several portable classrooms and likely switch to a year-round school schedule to stagger when students are in the classroom,” said Shad Sorenson, district superintendent of the district.
South Summit’s elementary, middle and high schools are all currently housed on the same 40 acres, which Sorenson said is about 30 acres too small for a three-school campus.