At the beginning of the 2025-26 school year, parents, students, staff and visitors entering the high school may have seen construction being done at the Third Avenue entrance. Before that, they may have seen trailers at the Perkal St entrance. Now, they see a new addition to a school, a visitor entry point. This small enclosed entrance in the front of the dean’s office finished construction around February 2026. 

Anytime a guest visits or a guardian arrives to pick up a student, they enter this building. The construction of the new visitor room replaced the previous two trailers system. This system involved two trailers, one outside the dean’s office and one outside guidance and nurses office. The new vestibule streamlines the previous process that the school had in place.

“As opposed to the trailers it is nicer, it’s less all over the place and it’s less confusing” Bob Sorensen, the security guard that works in the vestibule, said.

“People come in through the door and they ring the bell nearby and then we take care of whatever they need,” Sorensen said. 

The doors on both sides are locked and only the guard can unlock it.  The cleaner, more advanced system is “…much, much safer than anything else”, said Sorensen. Being able to control and limit where visitors can come through is much safer than the two trailer systems.

Additions to the school are common and necessary. Schools need to evolve and expand for multiple reasons. They may have an increase in the student or faculty population, or they need redesign to conform to the school associated colors. Aspects within the building that were already established can be improved on as well.