Construction is moving along on three major construction projects in Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD.
The school board received an update March 25 on the progress of Eagle Mountain High School and the replacement of Wayside Middle School.
Here’s where each stands:
Eagle Mountain High School
Eagle Mountain High School, the district’s fourth comprehensive high school, is almost ready for its August debut, Chief Operations Officer Clete Welch told trustees.
Crews are laying sod, and more trees are being planted at the far north Fort Worth high school. Parking lots are coming into form, too.
Athletics fields and buildings are making good progress, as well, Welch said.
The only construction issue Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD has run into has been the weather, he said.
“Rain has really been a problem,” Welch said.
The $271 million campus is expected to open for the start of the 2024-25 school year, according to officials. A $524.7 million bond that voters approved in 2017 is funding construction.
Wayside Middle School
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD is working with the city of Saginaw to come up with a traffic plan for the new Wayside Middle School. Other procedural documents, such as a drainage plan, have been submitted to Saginaw.
The replacement campus will be similar to Marine Creek Middle School. The new school was initially planned as part of the district’s 2017 bond, but rising costs forced officials to move the project to the $659.1 million bond that voters approved in 2023.
The new Wayside Middle School will be built next to the district’s former administration building on Old Decatur Road near Bailey-Boswell Road adjacent to the current campus at 1300 Old Decatur Road.
The old administration building will be demolished to make way for the new school. The school board is expected to consider setting the maximum price for razing the building in either April or May, according to district documents.
The demolition and construction will affect the current Wayside Middle School for the next two years, Welch said. Staff park in the back near where the new school will be built. Parents also pick up students there.
“There are a lot of things that they’re going to have to adjust for this time period until we’re completely done in summer of 2026,” Welch said.
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