Clovis South High School

“Maximizing Achievement for All Students,” means making sure that every school, no matter when it was built, is a high-quality learning environment where students can do their best.

Measure A is on the November 2024 ballot. If passed, the final phase of our new high school could be completed, alleviating a student-housing problem in the secondary level that would otherwise have to be resolved by busing, boundary changes or double sessions.

FACT: Clovis East High is overcrowded, with 5,000+ students on a campus built for 4,000. In 2020, the community supported building Clovis South High in order to ease overcrowded conditions. Plans and a budget were developed for Clovis South (located on the Terry Bradley Educational Center along with Sanchez Intermediate) before the pandemic. No one could have known that an unprecedented post-pandemic inflation of construction prices – more than 40% jumps in some material and labor costs – would create a funding gap, but it did.

Students, already impacted during the pandemic, may feel the effects again should the final phase of Clovis South High not be completed.

Over time, our schools have benefited from community support of facility bond measures in many ways, allowing us to continue to have modern, well-maintained campuses around Clovis Unified.

Every school facility in Clovis Unified has benefited from bond projects not once or twice, but many times over. Across the District, bond funds have been used for:

• Fixing leaking roofs, electrical wiring, fire safety doors and smoke alarms
• Repairing and upgrading deteriorating science, engineering and math classrooms to provide modern learning spaces at all of our schools
• Building new schools and adding space at existing schools to reduce overcrowding
• Building new performing arts and athletic spaces and upgrading others
• Making needed updates to facilities to provide safe, clean drinking water
• Improving school safety and security by updating communication systems and security systems
• Maintaining equitable facilities at schools of all ages through modernization and maintenance projects
• And many, many other upgrades and repairs

Many people don’t realize that as of 2024, our community has a lower tax rate on school bonds than it did in 2020, 2010 or even 2000. They also don’t know that Clovis Unified residents pay a lower tax rate than people living in neighboring school districts like Fresno, Sanger and Central. Learn more about our facilities program and the use of facility bonds in Clovis Unified at Clovis Unified SD | Facilities.