The district opened its latest elementary school, Almondale, last fall. But predicting the housing market is somewhat like forecasting the weather, and for schools the timing must be exact. In our district that has happened from time to time. A half-filled school can't pay for itself, he said. It takes nearly two years to go through the required processes and build a new elementary school.
High schools take about five years.
That doesn't include the time needed to find the millions of dollars to pay for the buildings.