Manteca High four years from now will be almost unrecognizable to someone who hasn’t seen  the campus since 2020.

*The vast majority of classrooms — 52 — will be in a pair of two-story buildings.

*A new woodshop will have been built.

*The new gym and swimming pool complex along with an expansive quad has replaced the small gym and softball field.

*The football stadium will have gone through a $13 million renovation.

*The footprint of the campus has been expanded through the purchase and removal of the Pacific Motel on Moffat Boulevard and all of the homes on the southside of Mikesell Street.

When the work that will get started in the coming months including 20 classrooms in a two-story building along Miksell Street and then 32 classrooms in a two-story building along Shemran Avenue along with a new student quad and media center is done, somewhere in the neighborhood of $120 million will have been spent on work  that started more than three years ago.

The 103 year-old school site will basically be the “newest” high school campus in the Manteca Unified School District.

It also will likely be pushing towards its new education program design capacity of 2,250  students as growth continues in southeast Manteca, primarily at the 1,301-home Griffen Park neighborhood.

The campus currently has over 1,900 students.

The Manteca High campus is the biggest — and arguably the best — example of the Manteca Unified School District strategy to maximize the most benefit possible out of modernization bond funds as well as community facilities district and developer fees assessed to pay for new school facilities to accommodate growth.

If the district had opted to build a new campus, the cost would have been in excess of $220 million.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com