The San Ramon Valley Unified School District will break ground for the new Dougherty Valley High School at the corner of Bollinger Canyon and Albion roads in east San Ramon at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 23. The new school, which will serve grades 9-12, will open in August 2007 with 9th- and 10th-graders only during its first year. High school students from the rapidly developing Dougherty Valley have been attending Monte Vista High. The last high school to open in the district was California High School in San Ramon, which was completed in 1973.
The new high school campus is 54 acres, with approximately 300,000 square feet of floor space. It will have four two-story classroom buildings, a career technology building, and a commons building, which will house the library and cafeteria facilities and an administration building. The school will also have a theater arts complex with a 400-seat auditorium, and vocal and instrumental music and rehearsal rooms.
The athletic facilities will include a main gymnasium with 1,200-spectator capacity; an auxiliary gym; two baseball fields; two softball fields; eight lighted tennis courts; four outdoor basketball courts; a swimming pool; and an all-weather field and track in a 2,000-seat stadium.
Grading and utilities work is under way now, and scheduled for completion in January. Construction on the buildings should begin in early 2006.
