17-02-2025
Dublin Scioto High School addition calls for new academic wing, expanded dining area
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — Dublin City Schools has shared new details on how the district plans to expand Scioto High School by more than 60,000 square feet.
The district's proposal submitted to the city of Dublin calls for the construction of a new two-story academic classroom wing and the expansion of an existing dining commons area. The addition plan, which would allow the district to shift 500 to 600 students to Scioto, is scheduled to be reviewed by Dublin's planning and zoning commission on Thursday.
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Once completed, the academic wing will span 56,000 square feet and be located on the building's north side, between the two existing two-story academic wings. The proposal said the new wing will be home to 27 new classrooms accommodating about 25 students each, and other supporting spaces.
The existing dining commons area, also located along the building's northern side, will be expanded by about 6,250 square feet. Dublin schools said this expansion area will provide indoor and outdoor student dining areas, as well as create an additional access corridor from the academic wing directly to the dining area.
The aesthetic of the expansion will maintain the existing material characteristics of the current building, the plan states. Dublin schools is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony on May 22, with construction expected to continue through August 2026.
Superintendent John Marschhausen announced the addition last August, after pausing a nonbinding agreement to buy Cardinal Health's west campus headquarters. Since then, the district has formally withdrawn from the plan, which would've seen the building turned into a fourth Dublin high school.
Earlier in August, Dublin's planning and zoning commission signaled they were unsupportive of the zoning changes needed to repurpose Cardinal's building. Dublin schools had entered into the purchase agreement in spring 2024, which allowed the district more than a year to determine if the building could be configured to serve as a school.
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Scioto's construction comes as the district is readying to redraw high school boundaries after the new elementary and middle school boundaries were announced in December. The superintendent has long said redistricting is needed given Jerome High School's enrollment is disproportionally growing compared to Scioto and Coffman high schools.
'As we look at the distribution of high school students across Dublin, we're looking at less than 1,500 kids at Scioto, over 1,800 kids at Coffman, and approaching 2,100 students at Jerome,' the superintendent said at a Jan. 13 board of education meeting. 'Jerome's gonna continue to grow. If we don't do anything, this distribution of students and these gaps will only continue to rise.'
Marschhausen noted that redistricting will not just shift 500 students over to Scioto, but rather remove about 600 from Jerome and delegate half to Coffman and the other half to Scioto. This process, which will mark the first redistricting of Dublin's high schools since 2006, is expected to eventually even out the district's three high schools to house about 2,000 students each.
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