SCH Number 2023060568

Project Info

Title

School Closure/Consolidation Program Project

Description

ACUSD is proposing to consolidate eight school campuses onto six current ACUSD campuses. This would require physical site improvements at three campuses: Argonaut HS, Ione Junior HS, and Sutter Creek ES; the closure of Ione ES and Sutter Creek Primary School, Sutter Creek ES’s second campus, for later disposition; and the creation of a county preschool. The District proposes to combine Amador HS and Argonaut HS at Argonaut HS. This would change the enrollment capacity from 925 students to 1,325 students and would continue to serve grades 9 through 12. The number of teaching stations would increase from 37 to 53. This campus would require site improvements to accommodate the increase in enrollment. Site improvements include new 10-classroom 2-story building, addition of portable office and 4 portable classrooms relocated from Jackson Junior HS, convert 2 pre-school classrooms to regular classrooms, convert classroom for counseling office, kitchen renovation and expansion, renovate and expand gymnasium locker rooms, new parent drop-off, new access road connecting to Stony Creek Road, and accessibility compliance throughout campus. The District proposes to combine Ione Junior HS and Jackson Junior HS at Amador HS. This change would not affect the enrollment capacity (875 students) of the campus nor the number of teaching stations (35 teaching stations). The campuses would serve grades 7 through 8 instead of grades 9 through 12. No building or site improvements are proposed at this campus. The District proposes to relocate Ione ES to Ione Junior HS and would add pre-school and transitional kindergarten (TK) to the campus. This would change the enrollment capacity of the campus from 775 students serving grades 6 through 8 to 801 students serving preschool and grades TK through 6. Teaching stations would increase from 31 to 33 by adding 2 preschool classrooms. This campus would require site improvements to accommodate the increase in enrollment. Site Improvements at Ione Junior HS campus would include a new 2-classroom building and playground for preschool, TK, and extended learning; convert science classrooms to kindergarten classroom; convert restrooms to kindergarten restrooms, expand the kitchen, expand parent drop-off/pick-up areas, expand kindergarten drop-off/pick-up areas, new play structure and hard court areas, and a new 3,000 square foot lawn area. The District would convert Jackson Junior HS into the County Preschool Center. This would change the enrollment capacity and grade levels from 475 students of grades 6 through 8, to 195 preschool and TK students. The number of teaching stations would decrease from 19 to 15. Restrooms and fountains would be converted to have age-appropriate fixtures, but site improvements would not be required. The District would add 6 grade to Jackson ES. The enrollment capacity of 575 students and 23 teaching stations would remain the same. No site improvements would be required at this campus. The District would expand Sutter Creek ES to create a TK through 6 grade campus. This would increase the enrollment capacity from 325 students of grades 3 through 6 to 625 students of grades TK through 6. The number of teaching stations would increase from 13 to 25. To accommodate the increase in students, site improvements would be required. The site improvements would include a new 12-classroom building and lunch shelter. Sutter Creek Primary School (at 110 Board Street in the city of Sutter Creek) and Ione ES close for later disposition. As part of the proposed project, each elementary and junior high school campus would have a campus supervisor that would oversee a valet program where campus personnel help load and unload students from vehicles and buses and control vehicles leaving the campus (metering) to allow for efficient circulation onto public streets. At the high school campus, the campus supervisor would meter vehicles leaving the campus during pick-up and drop-off times.

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