The school itself is in the design phase, but work has begun to prepare the land, the district said. They are working with Fairborn, the Ohio EPA and the Ohio Department of Transportation to safely remove undergrowth in an environmentally healthy way.
The district can pay for the new school with a levy that was passed in November. The 5.83 combined bond and levy will cost the owner of a $100,000 home about $204 per year.
The proceeds would fund construction of a $65 million to $70 million high school, performing arts center and athletic complex.
Pam Gayheart, a spokesman for Fairborn schools, said when the new high school construction is completed, the high school students will move to the new school and Baker Middle School students will move to the old Fairborn High School on Dayton-Yellow Springs Road.
“The new Fairborn Intermediate School will be constructed at the site that the old school sat on-they tore down the old building and construction is underway,” she said.
Gayheart said when money becomes available from the state, a new middle school will be built next to the high school on Commerce Center Boulevard.
Fairborn voters approved a 2.95-mill bond levy in 2016 to build new primary and intermediate schools. The primary school will replace a 60-year-old building at 4 W. Dayton-Yellow Springs Road, and it’s being built next to the playground at the current primary school.
The new building will be about two stories tall and 130,44 square feet. The current high school was built in 1971.
Credit: JIM NOELKER
Credit: JIM NOELKER
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