Some eighth-graders in the Shoreline School District are wondering if they will be attending school in a brand new Shorewood High School building next year.

They’ll have to wait a little longer than that.

District officials hope to build a new Shorewood High School and renovate Shorecrest High School, but both wouldn’t be finished until 2013, according to current estimates.

Over the past year, several staff, parents, students and a consultant met to determine educational specifications for each building.

Educational specifications are goals for what is needed or wanted at the new sites — elements like better security and more common spaces, for example.

That process finished recently. It’s been funded by voter-approved money from the spring 2006 capital projects bond.

The next step is to choose an architect — one for each school, said Marcia Harris, deputy superintendent. This year, and in 2009, more specific designs will be created.

That will include concepts like where the math department should be in relation to the English department, then later, what the exterior of the buildings would look like.

In late winter or early spring of 2010, district staff hope to put a bond before voters to fund the new buildings.

If that passes, construction could begin in 2011 and finish in 2013.

There is no cost estimate yet as it is too early, Harris said.

It hasn’t yet been decided where students will go during construction.

One option is to move them to another site, as happened in the Seattle School District when Garfield High School students were moved to Lincoln High School during construction, said Shorewood principal Bill Dunbar.

Another option would be to build on the sports fields. The sites will need to be evaluated to determine the best course of action, said Shorecrest principal Pat Hegarty.

As for a renovation at Shorecrest, the extent of the renovation hasn’t been set in stone.

But officials have an extensive renovation in mind.

“Our thinking has been on the more extreme end of the spectrum,” Hegarty said.