If a new Junction City High School is built and if it included ninth grade through twelfth grade students there would still be a need for the building that currently houses ninth grade students, the Freshman Success Academy.

Dr. Beth Hudson, USD 475 Interim Superintendent of Schools, explained there would be a use for the FSA building. “We have talked about possibly moving the Boys and Girls Club there, which would free up space at the Early Childhood Center. We’ve also talked about moving some of the Larry Dixon Center over there, and then community groups such as the Eighth Judicial District, Pawnee Mental Health have also said they would love to be in schools, so it could be a community based effort to have all of those at that facility. We could easily make use of that space.”

A JCHS Steering Committee is studying the possibility of building a new high school, and also whether to have any new facility serve tenth through twelfth grade students or ninth through twelfth grade students. That committee is expected to make a recommendation to the Board of Education in January.