Bonds would fund transition to Florence middle schools
by Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune
This architect’s rendering shows a future middle school campus near Florence High School./ADM Group
With an estimated 1,300 new students coming into Florence Unified School District in the next five years, administrators want to build middle schools adjacent to its three existing high school campuses.
Voters will be asked to approve a $75 million bond issue in Tuesday’s election to help make it happen as an addition to state money and pay for other capital needs, officials said.
Middle schools will be a new concept for FUSD, which has built K-8 schools for the last 18 years. High-achieving middle schoolers, who now visit the high schools to study advanced science and math, will have easier access to honors programs such as pre-Advanced Placement, STEM and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years program.
