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Visitors on Nov. 21 walked along the outside of the new Sanger Education Complex, currently under construction, at the northeast corner of Jensen and Fowler avenues in Fresno. The complex is scheduled to begin receiving students in the fall of 2020.
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through the process of finding a contractor, it’s taken some time,” aid Martinez.
The current high school on Bethel Av- enue was opened at the beginning of this centu- ry, in the spring of 2000. It replaced the old high school closer to the cen- ter of town, which cur- rently serves as Sanger Unified School District’s Washington Academic Middle School.
Steven Valdez, proj- ect manager for Harris Construction, the con- struction company that is currently building the Sanger Ed Complex, re- members the day well. The Sanger native was one of the first students to move into the new Sanger High School.
“I was a freshman,”
said Valdez of the dis- trict’s current high school. “I spent the first semester at the old high school in the fall of ’99 and they moved us dur- ing Christmas break to the new high school.”
At that time, accord- ing to Valdez, the gym, library and quad area, were still under con- struction.
Twenty years later, Valdez is on the build- ing end of adding the district’s second high school. On Nov. 21, he gave a guided tour to the Sanger Rotary Club, showing them the prog- ress of the complex that is scheduled to begin re- ceiving students in the fall of 2020.
The student popu- lation at the current Sanger High School is about 3,000, said Marti- nez. That number will begin to drop next year
as some freshman will be matriculating to the new complex. The district has identified four at- tendance areas that will feed into the Sanger Ed Complex, said Martinez. Those attendance areas are John Wash, Sequoia, Lone Star and Del Rey elementary students.
Beginning in the fall of 2020, the new school site will be accepting about 300 freshman. The following year will comprise of freshman and sophomores until all four grade levels are represented in the fall of 2023. The first grad- uating class will be in the spring of 2024. That year, the school will like- ly have more than 1,200 students.
As for the new high school name, along with mascot and school col- ors, Martinez said the new students will have
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Visitors from the Sanger Rotary Club taking a Nov. 21 tour of the new Sanger Education Complex, still under construction, stood in what will be the main lobby of the facility.
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an opportunity to have a say in the matter in the coming years. For now, the new Sanger Ed Com- plex will be adorned in blue and gray.
The new Sanger Ed Complex is located at 1850 South Fowler Ave. at the northeast corner of Fowler and Jensen avenues, in Fresno.
Martinez also said there are current plans for two additional el- ementary schools in a district that continues to grow.
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