human services. The district has set a projected completion date of August 2014.
The 501,000-square-foot Joplin High School and Franklin Technology Center — which will be integrated into the high school — is under construction at 20th Street and Indiana Avenue. The building will have a 3,000-student capacity and will be built as a series of five interconnected “houses,” which each “house” containing classes geared toward a different career path — health sciences, arts and communication, technical sciences, business and information technology, or
The school’s first phase of construction, scheduled to begin soon along with the church and a family life center, includes classrooms, a media center and computer lab, art and science classrooms, a kitchen and cafeteria, a playground and built-in storm shelters, Monaghan said. A later phase, which would be completed only if enough funds could be raised, would include ball fields, a gymnasium and additional classroom space potentially for middle-school students, he said.
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Street. They will boast a combined 215,073 square feet and will hold up to 450 elementary students from Duenweg and Duquesne schools and up to 700 middle-school students. Both schools are projected to open in December.
A new St. Mary’s Elementary School, which was destroyed in the tornado, is on the horizon for Joplin Area Catholic Schools. It will be built alongside the new St. Mary’s Catholic Church at West 32nd Street and Central City Road and is projected to be ready for students in preschool through the fifth grade within two years, according to the Rev. Justin Monaghan.
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Plans show the vision for the new Joplin High School campus. (courtesy Joplin Schools)
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The installation of safe rooms at Joplin schools, many of which will double as gymnasiums, has also become a district priority. Construction of the first five safe rooms — at Cecil Floyd, Eastmorland, Stapleton and McKinley schools and at Junge Stadium — could begin as early as this month.
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“Our regional business partners, they should be able to very confidently hire students from Joplin High School that have those skills, or at least know that they have been taught those skills,” he said. “I think employers want to know, ‘Am I getting a good hire?’ And I think kids need to know that’s the expectation out there.”
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Superintendent C.J. Huff said the focus on career pathways will give students the chance to explore career options during high school through internships and other “real-world” experiences with a number of local business partners. Students should also learn skills critical to their employability, such as being on time and working with others.
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