West Haven High School is about to get a facelift.
Groundbreaking begins Tuesday to renovate the campus with new state-of-the-art facilities for science, technology, engineering and math.
The school was built over 50 years ago, but the plans will mark a changing blueprint. Officials said 98,000-square feet of the building will be renovated. The rest will be demolished, and another 168,0000-square feet of new construction will be added.
The completed school will offer a new media center, advanced STEM classrooms and labs, and upgraded public areas.
Construction will be done in three phases to make sure the 1,450 students can continue taking classes during the work.
The project’s price tag is $129.9 million, with the state reimbursing the city for 75 percent of it.
These major changes are being made even as the state slashes the budget on school funding. So far there’s no word on how the final budget could change this project.
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The groundbreaking is scheduled for 1 p.m.
