Improvements coming to school district properties
Reconfiguring football stadium, creating Bronc Achievement Center
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The Teton County School District is proposing numerous changes and improvements for the coming years. The board of trustees will consider several proposals at its next regular meeting this month.
Bronc Achievement Center
The proposed “Bronc Achievement Center” will be situated east of the tennis courts on the south side of Jackson Hole High School and will provide additional space for several classrooms including Fabrication Lab, Robotics, Health, Wellness, PE, CNA/Training, Engineering, Culinary, and Media Arts.
The facility would also include basketball courts, volleyball courts, soccer, an indoor track, space for wrestling, a climbing wall, weight room, and locker rooms. A primary focus of this facility is to allow space-intensive programs from the high school to be moved into a new space which will provide additional classroom space to accommodate the growing population of students at JHHS.
Site improvements at McIntosh Stadium
The site improvements include moving the existing bleachers and press box from the east side of McIntosh Stadium to the west side. When those bleachers were built, they were designed for a high school with approximately 400 students. Currently the high school has more than double that for enrollment.
The reconfiguration would also change the orientation of the site where home spectators would enter on the east side of the field and have access to parking at other schools nearby. Visitors and bus drop off would be in the current parking area for visitors.
Bus Barn/Maintenance Facility
The state has ranked the current bus barn facility as the number one priority for ancillary school facilities. The current facility is undersized and in poor condition. Additionally, the district’s maintenance shop, located by Jackson Hole Middle School, is inadequate to support the facility needs of a growing district.
By combining the bus barn and maintenance facility school officials hope to gain efficiencies as well as creating opportunities to use the current maintenance facility for middle school career tech education (CTE) programming in the future.
These and other topics will be discussed by the school board on November 10.
