Hampton High School remodeling project explored

Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 9:00p.m. Updated 22 hours ago

Hampton Township School District administrators and school board members are weighing the information presented in a feasibility study to explore a potential multimillion-dollar remodeling project at the high school.

The feasibility study was scheduled to be presented to the school board at a special meeting on May 27.

Since February, architects with VEBH Architects, a Mt. Lebanon-based firm, have been meeting with staff, teachers, students and community members to collect input on the limitations of and issues with the current high school design to include in the feasibility study.

The final public meeting scheduled for May 19 was sparsely attended by the residents, but the architects and Superintendent John Hoover said they felt comfortable with the information collected to date.

We have been getting feedback from the people we've been sending to the architects, Hoover said.

I think we have a pretty good sense of all the problems.

The next step is for the school board members to decide how to proceed and at what cost; early projections estimated the cost at $5 million to $10 million.

No decisions have been made no budget and no design solutions, said Tom Durkin, a Hampton resident and principal with VEBH.

The feasibility study was prompted by interest in remodeling the high school. District administrators are looking at several potential areas to be remodeled at the high school that would either improve energy consumption, security or education.

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Hampton High School remodeling project explored