Legacy 6-12 Academy, a major component of the Tustin Legacy planned community, is slated to break ground in 2018 after years of worry that the promised project would never materialize.
Expected to open in 2020, the combined middle and high school will provide an upper-grade transition from Heritage Elementary, which opened in 2016 after a bumpy five years.
The new school will be built at the southwest corner of Tustin Ranch Road and Valencia Avenue on the former Marine Corps Air Station. The city transferred the 40 acres of land to Tustin Unified School District in 2015.
Legacy Academy will serve up to 1,200 students with a focus on science, technology, engineering and math.
Although the Heritage facility was completed in 2011, low enrollment numbers due to a stall in home construction shelved the school?s inauguration. That led to disgruntled residents saddled with paying off a bond for a school they couldn?t use.
The city sued Tustin Unified over the delay, but a judge ruled the district had the right to postpone the opening.
During that contentious chapter, Tustin Legacy residents wondered if they would ever have a nearby elementary, much less middle and high school classrooms.
But such fears were put to rest two years ago when the city and Tustin Unified approved a $78 million plan to build the academy. Roughly half of the money will come from city contributions and developer fees, and the rest from bonds financed through a Mello-Roos district created in Tustin Legacy.
At long last, 2018 will mark the end of uncertainty and the beginning of a new era for Tustin schools.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/...ool-new-homes-new-office-complex-and-old-fun/
Expected to open in 2020, the combined middle and high school will provide an upper-grade transition from Heritage Elementary, which opened in 2016 after a bumpy five years.
The new school will be built at the southwest corner of Tustin Ranch Road and Valencia Avenue on the former Marine Corps Air Station. The city transferred the 40 acres of land to Tustin Unified School District in 2015.
Legacy Academy will serve up to 1,200 students with a focus on science, technology, engineering and math.
Although the Heritage facility was completed in 2011, low enrollment numbers due to a stall in home construction shelved the school?s inauguration. That led to disgruntled residents saddled with paying off a bond for a school they couldn?t use.
The city sued Tustin Unified over the delay, but a judge ruled the district had the right to postpone the opening.
During that contentious chapter, Tustin Legacy residents wondered if they would ever have a nearby elementary, much less middle and high school classrooms.
But such fears were put to rest two years ago when the city and Tustin Unified approved a $78 million plan to build the academy. Roughly half of the money will come from city contributions and developer fees, and the rest from bonds financed through a Mello-Roos district created in Tustin Legacy.
At long last, 2018 will mark the end of uncertainty and the beginning of a new era for Tustin schools.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/...ool-new-homes-new-office-complex-and-old-fun/