MARYSVILLE – The new Marysville Arts &Technology High School will not open Sept. 4 as originally planned.
Just when it will be ready is up for discussion tonight.
A staff report will be given to the Marysville School Board at its 6:30 p.m. meeting at district headquarters, 4220 80th St. NE.
Superintendent Larry Nyland said the earliest the school could open is mid-October, but it will likely be after that.
District officials said there are several reasons for the delay, including engineering design issues that needed to be resolved and a backlog of permit applications at the county level.
“A project like this hasn’t been done around here before,” said John Bingham, the district’s capital facilities director.
“I think people understand in a lot of ways it is a very unique project with unique challenges,” he said. “We are doing the best we can.”
Arts &Technology will be the first of three small schools to open on the new 38-acre Marysville Secondary Campus. All three are being relocated from other parts of the district.
Arts &Technology will be followed by Tulalip Heritage High School and Tenth Street School, a middle school.
All three schools are being relocated on a $24 million campus just south of Quil Ceda Elementary School on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.
Arts &Technology is now in a leased building on the reservation.
Enrollment is projected to reach 400 this fall, which is much larger than the past.
As a result, some students could be taught in classrooms on the Totem Middle School campus until the new school opens, Bingham said.
Reporter Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446 or stevick@heraldnet.com.
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