Northeast Lakeview School, the youngest school beneath the Alamo Schools District umbrella, is getting ready to as soon as once more increase its footprint to fulfill the rising demand within the New Braunfels space.
Three years after leasing a shared house on the Central Texas Know-how Heart in New Braunfels, the school started the method of doubling its capability within the area by buying a 58,000-square-foot constructing with about 10.7 acres of house.
The present New Braunfels facility has about half of the instructing house in comparison with the brand new constructing, which is now slated to be accomplished by the Spring of 2027, mentioned Northeast Lakeview President Veronica Garcia.
“We thought we had been going to be there for 5 years. However what occurred is that started off with solely 125 college students and the next 12 months, we doubled that,” Garcia mentioned concerning the present facility. “And so what we shortly realized is that we had been outgrowing the house sooner than what we had been anticipating.”
Right this moment the variety of college students attending the New Braunfels middle account for practically 40% of the school’s total enrollment, which this fall reached about 10,600 college students.
The acquisition of the brand new facility — which was initially constructed to deal with a headquarters for PNC financial institution however was left unused — was introduced this spring and this fall the school is beginning the bidding course of to discover a contractor to retrofit the house.
Alamo Schools District bought the prevailing constructing for $13.6 million in addition to an adjoining 4.2 acres for $2 million. Reworking of the constructing is estimated to price $8 million, together with lab tools. Town of New Braunfels contributed $5 million towards the undertaking.
“There’s an incredible worth on this partnership to the New Braunfels and Seguin communities and alignment to the schooling and workforce wants,” Alamo Schools Chancellor Mike Flores mentioned in an announcement of the acquisition in January. “College students who stay within the space will proceed to have the chance to check high-demand, high-wage profession paths beneath the Alamo Schools umbrella near dwelling.”
Northeast Lakeview School was established in 2007 aiming to serve residents of northeast San Antonio, in addition to these residing in Comal and Guadalupe Counties. The faculty traces its roots to a instructing middle that served this area as an extension of St. Philip’s School since 1996.
About three years in the past the school leased the present New Braunfels middle, which is shared with Texas State Technical School. The faculty at the moment operates in lower than 20,000 sq. toes of house, Garcia mentioned.
Early plans for the brand new facility concerned largely classroom house, however these have advanced into a mixture of classroom and lab house for core programs comparable to chemistry and biology, in addition to packages like electrical engineering, nursing and extra.
Whereas these adjustments pushed their anticipated completion date by one full semester, Garcia mentioned this funding will permit them to extend the variety of programs supplied at this location and add new ones. The faculty expects so as to add a full licensed nursing assistant program, electrical engineering and cyber protection, that are taught in tandem with the principle campus.
“I count on that the cyber program will develop. I count on that the entire electrical program will develop, engineering will develop, after which a part of the healthcare packages are going to develop,” Garcia mentioned. “The query goes to be; how can we sustain with that progress?”
