The project to create a Nile Garden School campus access driveway to Union Road to address congestion during student drop-off and pick-up times is before the Manteca Unified School District board on Thursday.
It involves an easement to alter a South San Joaquin Irrigation District line.
The driveway will also make development of a potential Nile Garden Annex possible.
The annex could accommodate 400 additional students.
It’s a planning move designed to make sure when capacity is reached at the two new schools being built south of the 120 Bypass and growth starts occurring to the southeast that the district has an option besides adding portable classrooms to existing campuses.
The school district expects to break ground next year on the two new elementary campuses south of the 120 Bypass. One will be on Tinnin Road and the other northwest of Woodward and McKinley avenues.
The annex would be built on 8 acres Manteca Unified bought adjoining the campus last year.
The purchase allowed for construction of a driveway to Union Road later this year to ease congestion in the school parking lot and along Nile Avenue.
The additional land will also accommodate more playing fields for the school.
Nile Garden in May had an enrollment of 1,147.
The Measure A school bond project now underway that is replacing portable classrooms with permanent classrooms plus reconfigurations being made will allow an enrollment of 1,200 without an annex being built.
Nile Garden, thanks to the $159 million Measure G bond passed in 2014 along with state matching funds, is essentially an all new campus.
In recent years a dedicated transitional kindergarten/kindergarten complex was added, a new multipurpose room built, a new administrative office constructed, paging and fire alarm systems modernized, the campus secured, playground issues addressed, a dedicated parking lot created, and a school bus drop zone installed plus more.
The board meets at 6 p.m. Thursday in the district office at 2701 West Louise Ave.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
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