Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Wake Forest-Rolesville opens
After a year away, students to move back into renovated high school
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closeWake Forest-Rolesville High School unveiled its newly renovated facilities Monday, a week before its students return from their temporary home at Heritage High.
The state-of-the-art new building, roughly a $50 million revamp, will put most students and faculty under one roof. They previously used a slew of trailers for temporary classrooms.
Though classes don't start until Tuesday, several hundred students and parents filled the new facilities for tours Monday morning. Faculty and staff are moving in and organizing classrooms this week.
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52
The number of years since the original Wake Forest-Rolesville High was built.
1
The number of years students and staff had to spend at Heritage High School, across town.
$49,922,973
The projected final price tag for the project.
The makeover forced students and staff at the 52-year-old school to spend last year at the new Heritage High School on Forestville Road. The upgrade includes renovations to existing classroom buildings built in 1958 and 1989, and construction of a multistory new classroom wing, media center, parking deck and offices.
The school's historic 70-year-old football stadium, previously used by Wake Forest College before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956, also was renovated.
The entire plan was approved by voters in 2006 as part of a record $970 million bond package. It has been a top priority of school officials, who last year delayed work on the controversial Forest Ridge High site in northeast Raleigh to ensure the Wake Forest-Rolesville project was finished on time.
