JACKSON TWP — The Seneca Valley School Board Monday night heard several options for improvements to the various school buildings.

The options are contained in a study by Stantec, an architectural firm with an office in Butler.

Mike Corb of Stantec recommended to the board that it focus on the intermediate high school and Evans City Elementary and Middle School.

“Those are the two greatest needs of physical assets within the district that really are going to need to be addressed within the very short term,” he said.

He recommended the district have meetings to prioritize where the greatest building needs are and to talk about the educational needs.

“The programs are here and they are getting rolled out. They are successful,” Corb said. “But it’s at a point where the physical facilities are limiting the potential for those particular programs.”

Corb said enrollment growth at Connoquenessing Valley Elementary, expected to start next year, is pushing the need for improvements.

“That is kind of a domino that might push the conversation along,” Corb said.

Here is what the study recommends for improvements at the district’s buildings.

Evans City Elementary/Middle School Evans City has six options.-Maintain the existing building for $341,000.-Extensive renovations to the interior and exterior and construction of additions for $42.2 million. The renovations would replace the mechanical, electric and plumbing systems. It would help with energy efficiency. There would be new furnishings and equipment.-The next option would be a new K-6 building on the existing site for roughly $52.4 million. This would allow for all-day kindergarten, meeting enrollment growth while keeping class sizes at desired levels.Construct a K-6 building on Ehrman Road for roughly $67.9 million. This building would accommodate the enrollment growth for Evans City Elementary and Middle School, along with Connoquenessing Valley (CVE) and Rowan elementary schools.-A new middle school for 5th and 6th grade students on the Ehrman Road site. The cost would be $51.8 million. The new facility would accommodate the enrollment growth for Evans City and Haine. There still would be separate 5th and 6th grade centers at the new Ehrman Road school and the Haine school.-A new K-4 elementary addition on the Ehrman Road site for roughly $24.9 million. This would cause the old Evans City School to be sold, repurposed or demolished.

Haine Elementary/ Middle School There are three options.-Maintain the existing school for roughly $8 million.-Renovations and additions for roughly $40.5 million. This would include the consolidation of the elementary administrative suite and conversion of the large group instruction room into a K-2 literacy center.The elementary computer lab would be transformed into a K-6 cyber center and the library and the entry lobby would be turned into a classroom work space.The additions would create more learning support spaces for more programs; create ideal class sizes and accommodate enrollment growth.-Make Haine a K-4 school, which would cost $36.4 million. The 5th and 6th grade wing would be vacated and filled with students from Connoquenessing Valley and Rowan elementary schools.

Rowan ElementaryThere are two options for Rowan.-Maintain the school for $3.6 million.-Renovations and additions worth $17.6 million. The renovation would include the consolidation of the administrative suite, the conversion of the library into a classroom work space/media center and the expansion the gym.The additions to the school would help create more learning support spaces and programs.

Connoquenessing Valley ElementaryThere are two options for CVE.-Maintain the existing building for roughly $4.4 million. Due to the enrollment growth projected for CVE, there would be an addition of seven classrooms to the building.This is based on 25 students per classroom.-Redesign the administrative and nursing suite, convert the library into a classroom work space or a collaborative learning space/media center, renovate the large group instruction area and convert the stage into the sensory room.The additions to the school would help create more learning support spaces and programs. This option would cost roughly $22.6 million.

Seneca Valley Middle SchoolThis school would get limited renovations for $5.9 million. Additions would not be anticipated because of the building’s capacity.The renovations include converting the library and support rooms into a classroom work space/media center and additions for learning support spaces and programs.

Intermediate High SchoolThere are three options for this school.-Maintain the building at a cost of $370,750.-Make $68.3 million worth of renovations and additions, including converting the auditorium to seat 1,600. There would be an addition of an eight-lane, 25-meter natatorium and an enclosed connector to the senior high school. The visual and performing arts at the intermediate high school would also be consolidated and technical education would be relocated to the high school.-Spend $74.4 million to convert the auditorium to seat 1,600, add an eight-lane, 25-meter natatorium, make additions to consolidate visual and performing arts at the intermediate high school and relocate technical education to the senior high school.There would be a full building renovation to the auditorium, gym, cafeteria, kitchen and performing arts areas.This option also includes demolition of the existing intermediate high school classroom building and construction of a classroom addition to address blended learning.

Seneca Valley High SchoolThere are two options for the high school.-Maintain the existing building for $2.7 million.-Spend $50.2 million in renovations to make a consolidated technical education suite, to make renovations to accommodate the relocation of the performing arts to the intermediate high school and to convert the library to a blended learning commons. The renovations would have student and faculty collaboration areas.

Main CampusThe main campus is looking at roughly $28.9 million in improvements, which includes a traffic study, a road connection to Evergreen Mill Road, a road connection to Seneca School Road, a perimeter campus road, a campus entry sign and landscaping improvements, a press box, a new stadium and support facilities, indoor fields, a middle school and high school sidewalk connection and a main entry guard booth.