Thursday, July 22, 1999
Tour offered at new school
Bond issue pays for senior high, latest equipment
BY MIRIAM SMITH
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MORROW — It's far from being ready for classes, but the new Little Miami High School building will be available soon for the public to get a peek. The district has scheduled a July 31 tour at 10:30 a.m., even though the school won't open to students until fall 2000.
The 130,000-square-foot school is being built at U.S. 22-Ohio 3 and Morrow Cozaddale Road.
It will accommodate 800 students and is being designed to fit another 800 students, if necessary, Superintendent Michael Virelli said.
The project is expected to cost about $17 million.
In November 1997, residents passed a 5.44-mill bond issue to generate $17.6 million for the school.
The school will feature “very advanced” technology, including technology labs and a security system with cameras and an alarm system, Mr. Virelli said. The building will have sloping roofs, wide hallways and a brick exterior.
When the high school opens, the district will shuffle its school space to help ease crowding.
The district's three elementary schools now house kindergartners through sixth-grade students. Next fall, fifth- and sixth-graders will be moved to the former junior high building, and seventh- and eighth-graders now at the junior high will move to the old high school building.
The district is bracing for the possibility of unprece dented enrollment growth.
Little Miami is facing the explosive housing buildup that Lakota, Mason and Boone County schools have seen for the past 10 years.
Because of the crowding, Maineville Elementary kindergartners and students in the academically talented program will start their school year in church classrooms this fall.
Any relocated classrooms at the Maineville United Methodist Church, down the street from the school, would be a one-year answer, until the high school is built.
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