MEDIA ADVISORY: Mira Mesa High School Students to Join District Leaders and Community in Celebrating Construction Groundbreaking for Second Wave of Campus Transformation

 

 

 

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

 

Mira Mesa High School Students to Join District Leaders and Community in Celebrating Construction Groundbreaking for Second Wave of Campus Transformation

 

 

Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 

 

WHAT:         

Mira Mesa High School students will join district and school leaders to celebrate the start of construction on the second wave of the school’s campus transformation. 

 

WHEN:        

Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 

7:45 - 8:30 a.m. 

 

WHERE:      

Mira Mesa High School*

10510 Marauder Way

San Diego, CA 92126

                              

*See the event location map with the media staging area below. Please wear closed-toe shoes and long pants due to active construction. We will provide hard hats and vests. 

 

VISUALS:     

7:45 - 7:55 a.m. - National Anthem, Drumline Performance

7:55 - 8:03 a.m. - Speakers 

8:03 - 8:13 a.m. - Shovels to the Dirt, Photo Opps. 

8:13 - 8:30 a.m. - Media 1-1s, Campus Tour 

Drone video of construction, renderings, a construction postcard, and project fact sheets for completed projects can be found here. 

 

SPEAKERS: 

Dr. Lamont Jackson, Superintendent, San Diego Unified 

Sabrina Bazzo, Board of Education Trustee, San Diego Unified 

Jeff Sabins, Principal, Mira Mesa High School 

Students, Mira Mesa High School 

 

BACKGROUND: 

A California Distinguished School, Mira Mesa High School has served the Mira Mesa community for 49 years. Recognized by the state for its exemplary College, Career, and Technical Education (CCTE) Program, Mira Mesa High offers hands-on CCTE programs in Arts, Media, and Entertainment, Engineering, Health Sciences, Hospitality, Manufacturing and Product Development, and Transportation. It also offers a variety of Visual and Performing Arts courses, competitive athletic teams, a JROTC program, and award-winning band, dance, and cheer teams. 

 

Construction is starting on the second phase of the Whole Site Modernization project that will enhance campus security, build a new student services and classroom facility, convert the existing student services facility into classrooms, renovate aging classrooms and common areas, add a new visitor and administrator parking lot, construct shaded lunch court areas, and remove all remaining portable classrooms. 

 

Last spring, construction was completed on baseball field renovations, which included new grass infield and outfield, foul ball fencing, and a CIF regulation 

backstop at the baseball field, a new public address system and drinking fountain, replacement of the announcers' booth, repairs to the dugouts and batting cages, and upgrades to grading and irrigation.

 

The field followed the completion of the first phase of the Mira Mesa High School Whole Site Modernization project, which included the construction of one of the district's largest music buildings, renovations to existing classrooms, upgrades to collaborative workspaces in the media center, and the creation of outdoor learning spaces. 

 

Other bond projects include CCTE Engineering, Automotive Technology, and Culinary Arts facilities renovations and photovoltaic panels over the parking lots on the north and southeast sides of campus. 

 

Construction for the second phase of the Whole Site Modernization is anticipated to be completed in Summer 2027. 

 

PARKING:   

Parking will be available in the parking lot along Marauder Way. 

MEDIA CONTACT: 

Jamie Ries, Information Services Specialist, San Diego Unified, (619) 855-9283, jries@sandi.net.