Olympic Interim School

See the progress we are making on our renovations at the Olympic Interim School to prepare for hosting Highline High School students for two years, from fall 2019 to spring 2021.

UPDATE:  Feb. 7, 2018--This timeline has been updated to reflect that HHS will now move in during the summer of 2019. 

Planning & Design | January 2017 - June 2017

Bid & Award | July - September 2017

Construction | October 2017 - October 2019

Substantial Completion | October 2018

Final Completion | November 2018

Moving in Phase | January - September 2019

School Starts | September 2019

 

Renovations include fresh paint inside and out, new flooring, landscaping, renovated gym floors, lighting, new built-in reception and work areas, signage and hundreds of steel plates to attach the walls to the foundations of the three original buildings to meet seismic safety codes. Portable classrooms were added to the site to increase capacity and to replace a large section of the center building.

The renovated Olympic Interim Site features:

• 47 new portable classroom buildings including:

  • 7 science classroom buildings
  • 5 special education classroom buildings
  • Individual heating and air conditioning units
  • Elevated metal walkways and ADA-accessible ramps
     

• 4 portable restroom buildings plus multiple restrooms in the original buildings

  • Includes ADA-accessible restrooms in original buildings and in one of the portable restroom buildings

• 3 renovated original buildings including:

  • Building A
    • Gym
    • Auxillary gym
    • Cafeteria
    • Kitchen
    • Athletics locker rooms and offices
    • Music
    • Performance arts
  • Building B
    • Woodshop
    • Art
    • Ceramics
    • Computer technology
  • Building C
    • Main office
    • Library
    • Special education classrooms
    • Administrative spaces
    • Staff room

Download Olympic Interim School Site Plan, March 2018 (pdf)

Constructed in 1955 as a junior high school and later converted to an elementary school, in recent years the facility housed Mount Rainier High School students and Raisbeck Aviation High School students while their schools were under construction.

Before Highline High School students move in, we are required to make additional seismic improvements to meet current code requirements. 

In addition, portable classrooms will be added to the site to increase capacity and to replace a large section of the center building. The timeline has been updated to host HHS students for two years instead of three. HHS students will attend school at the Olympic Interim School for two years, from fall 2019 until spring 2021.