The Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) has released a report paving the way for a new Performing Arts Center to be built at Capistrano Valley High School, the only high school in the district without a facility for performing arts.
A proposal to build a 470-seat theater on an approximately 1.3 acre site within the high school campus has been detailed in a Mitigated Negative Declaration and Initial Study just released by CUSD. In addition to the stage, the two-story complex would house backstage areas for drama, choir, band, and orchestra. The project has been made possible at this time, as a result of State funding for career technical education facilities. The grant will pay for about a third of the project’s $12 million cost, with the balance coming from other available capital funds of the district.
The Mission Viejo City Council has long been an advocate for maintaining and improving the quality of school facilities in the City. The City Council previously commissioned an audit to determine if Mission Viejo schools were getting their fair share of CUSD revenues that were paid by Mission Viejo taxpayers. The Council has been a supporter of arts education for all students and has strongly advocated to CUSD that funds paid by Mission Viejo taxpayers be prioritized to ensure that a theatre is built at Capistrano Valley High School.
Capistrano Valley High School serves approximately 3,000 students from grades 9 to 12 at 26301 Via Escolar, Mission Viejo. For more information, or to view drawings and read a copy of the report, visit www.capousd.org.
I went to CVHS in 1979 and this was planned since then!! Nice to see if it will finally get built.
CVHS has been neglected by school board focusing on their own backyard of SJC. Mission Viejo city council (until now) neglected CVHS for 30 years paying attention to MVHS. This school is on the border and neither city helped CVHS.