The most imposing feature of the new River High gym seating 1,800 might just be the scoreboard.

It’s a four-sided video cube scoreboard suspended above center court.

It allows those as they enter the gym from “The Harbor” — the cafeteria/snack bar area that serves as the main entrance — to see the score through a bank of windows.

The high-tech scoreboard has the ability to display graphics, rosters, and even advertising in addition to the score and time.

The underside of the scoreboard features the River Islands logo while each corner of the cube has the logo along with the word “Riptide”.

The cube scoreboard is in addition to a standard scoreboard that is wall-mounted.

The Daktronics cube scoreboard is believed to be the first at a high school in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

The 70,000-square-foot gym complex was completed earlier this year and includes dedicated training and dance room areas in addition to locker room related facilities.

River Islands High currently has 850 students. The campus, which consists primarily of two story buildings, will accommodate 1,800 students once the second phase is completed.

The first phase is designed for 900 students.

The four elementary school campus — operated by River Islands Academies — opened last month.

River Islands High stopped being a charter school on July 1.

But for all practical purposes nothing has changed — not the teaching staff, not the administration, not the curriculum, and not the standards.

What changed is it is no longer run by River Islands Academies under the purview of the Banta Unified School District.

Instead, it is being run by the Banta Unified School District.

The change is the result of a deadline in the California Education Code that a requires a district within five years of being unified to establish schools to serve all K-12 grades.

Banta School District was a one-campus elementary school with 100 students when voters approved unification five years ago. In order to stay unified, Banta must have a comprehensive high school within five years.

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