Butler Senior High School will tentatively have a new wing of classrooms and a new auditorium for the 2022-23 school year, which will be able to house ninth grade as well as the 10th, 11th and 12th grades, which are currently in the school.

At Monday's meeting of the Butler Area School District board, its members voted to bid out some additional improvements that will come along with the addition.

The five “alternates” the board approved going out to bid include the creation of a large group instruction classroom, two classrooms built into the soon-to-be-built connector, repainting of the red facia that encompasses the entire campus, exterior signage at the entrance and the installation of a dust collector at the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) area.

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