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PROVO — School district officials voted Tuesday to relocate Provo High School to the city's west side.
Members of the Provo School District Board of Education voted 7-0 to relocate the school to property adjacent to Lakeshore Drive near Utah Lake.
The school district already owns that land, district spokesman Caleb Price said. Since at least September, education officials have discussed with potential buyers the sale of Provo High's current site on University Avenue and Bulldog Boulevard, but the move decided Tuesday is "independent of a sale," Price said.
"These discussions should not delay us in our commitment to providing the students, faculty, staff and patrons of Provo High with the best possible facility," Julie Rash, the school board's president, said in a statement read at the board's meeting Tuesday.
The new campus will better serve Provo High's student body, Rash said.
"Following months of research and conversations, we are convinced that building Provo High School on the Lakeshore site is in the best interest of our students," she said. "We are unwilling to sacrifice student opportunity and achievement in order to keep PHS on an inadequate site when a more suitable alternative is available. Therefore, we will immediately pursue a plan to relocate Provo High School."
The Provo City School District will finalize plans for the new campus beginning immediately, according to Price. Other details about the approved relocation, including the timeline for the completion of the Lakeshore site, were not released Tuesday.
