Ridge school district seeks to capitalize on the progress it has made in rebuilding, five years following the big fire.
PARADISE — Nearly five years after the Camp Fire, which flattened and blackened most of the town of Paradise and areas nearby, the landscape is starting to recover.
For starters: “We have modernized about 70% of Paradise Junior High School,” Taylor said, “and we’re expecting to wrap up the current projects by the begin of school year. That includes the installation of pickleball courts, modernizing the classrooms, installing new play fields, and an update of gym flooring and the bleachers.”
The big project has been Paradise High School’s main building. Gone is the 1957 structure which had served students almost since the school’s establishment. In its place is a shiny, fresh 31,000-square-foot building with 19 classrooms, and facilities for student services, counselors and administration.
“We’ve also modernized our library and science rooms — four science classrooms and a tech room,” he added. It’s a lot of activity for the district, which had about 3,400 students before the fire but plunged to 1,400 afterward. Taylor said his office expects 1,579 to show up for the first day of school Aug. 16 — about 100 more than originally projected.Regarding personnel, he said: “We’ve been able to maintain a lot of our teachers after the fire. We had reduced class sizes during COVID times. We’ve hired a couple of teachers, but have had the staff to handle the increase in enrollment.
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