Less than a decade after opening a new high school facility and 3½ years after approving a bond issue for a fourth elementary school, Clear Creek Amana needs more room.
On Sept. 12 — the same day Gladbrook-Reinbeck will vote on whether to blow itself up — the district that crossed the 2000-enrollment threshold last year is putting forth a $36 million bond issue. According to the Solon Economist/North Liberty Leader, this is the first of two planned bond issues. This one would cover a fifth elementary school, a new gym in Amana, and more classrooms at the high school. (The current high school opened in 2009 connected to the existing building on the same campus, everything with a purple roof in this picture. The leftmost gray-roofed part is even newer.)
A second bond issue, planned for 2022, would go to an all-new high school and a sixth elementary. At its current growth rate, the district would be twice the size it was at the turn of the century, but it “was determined the district is better off with one large high school rather than two smaller facilities,” the Economist/Leader reported. Logistically, it would be very difficult for CCA to split because all the growth is on the far east side, making it so unbalanced it’s at risk of capsizing.