Education
BY ETHAN THOMAS
NBHS students to shift classrooms
What else?
The New Braunfels ISD board of trustees voted to lease six temporary classrooms, or portables, at the site of the old New Braunfels High School at a regular board meeting Nov. 10. The portables—which cost $250,000 —will be used to relocate about 112 students and sta members from the existing facility to make way for Phase 2 reconstruction, and will be located by the old NBHS tennis courts and cafeteria, board documents state. The portables are being funded by the district’s 2021 bond. Phase 1 reconstruction is expected to be complete and ready for use as students return from winter break in January, but it will not be able to support all the sta members employed by the school, board documents state. The portables are expected to be used through the end of the 2025-26 school year, with a minimum six-month lease from service supplier Aries Building Systems. Paul McLarty, NBISD
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New Braunfels High School
Phase 1 reconstruction includes the addition of a new three-story academic wing,
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Phase 2 reconstruction has already begun, with $226 million being allocated from the district’s voter-approved 2024 bond for the construction of general education classrooms, a new Junior Reserve Ocer Training Corps. space, and new facilities for ne arts and athletics. Construction is expected to be completed by fall 2027, according to the district.
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chief business and support services ocer, said he doubts they’d need the full $250,000. “Hopefully, we’ll only have it for one semester, but we’ve got enough money in here if we have to go beyond that,” McLarty said.
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