2020s

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The 2020s began with the construction of an agriculture classroom and shop building on the south end of the campus and a new pressbox atop Custer Stadium. The two projects cost $2,492,761 with the Lyon Foundation covering about $400,000 of the cost of the pressbox.

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Agriculture Building

In-person classes were not resumed after Spring Break 2020 due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, with teachers working from home and students having the option of online instruction in April and May, thanks to the 1:1 Chromebook program that began for all high school students a couple of years earlier.

In-person classes resumed in August 2020, although about 15% of students opted to be full-time virtual students. Those on campus had to wear face coverings until the after Spring Break 2021, with efforts to maximize physical distancing and ongoing isolations and quarantines of classroom contacts to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

The 2021-2022 school began with optional masking with an initial wave of infections from the Delta variant and continued isolations of positive students and quarantines for any family members of positive cases, followed by a larger Omicron variant wave in the winter. However, fewer students were full-time virtual than in the previous school year.

Michael Harp succeeded LaDonna Chancellor as Principal in 2022. Pandemic protocols were eased for the 2022-2023 school year to focus only on isolations for positive persons.

A new Agricultural Center was built in 2023-2024 southeast of 18th Street and Shawnee/Jim Bohnsack Avenue. It includes a small arena, classroom, kitchen, labs, and store to complement the shop and two classrooms built earlier near the Bruin Activity Center. It cost $8,631,019.

Two greenhouses at the Center costing $872,482 were mostly funded by a $500,000 grant from the Lyon Foundation. Access to the city's Pathfinder Parkway was maintained via the Agricultural Center's parking lot.

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Ag Center

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Facility History

2020
New pressbox atop Custer Stadium replaced the metal shed one provided by the architects back in 1955 after Custer Stadium cost overruns.

New agriculture building with two classrooms and a workshop constructed south of 18th Street on the east side of Crestview Drive near the Bruin Activity Center.

2021

Bond issue passed to build an Agriculture Center south of the practice fields off Shawnee Avenue.

2022

Doornbos Track resurfaced and visitor bleachers replaced.

2024

New Agricultural Center southeast of 18th Street and Shawnee/Jim Bohnsack Avenue opens with arena, classroom, labs, kitchen, store, and greenhouses to complement the classrooms and shop in the separate 2020 agriculture building near the Bruin Activity Center.