After five years of planning and construction and a $36 million bond proposal, one small West Michigan community now boasts a new high school with state-of-the-art technology and classroom space conducive to learning, teaching, and becoming a community built on new and exciting educational opportunities.
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The new Sparta High School is not your Baby Boomers’ high school. No more mimeograph machines, long, noisy congested hallways and sterile libraries.
Sparta Area Schools Superintendent Kent Swinson said a new high school was needed to handle present and future technology. It was made possible by a $36 million bond issue approved by voters in 2004. Old Orchard Brands LLC donated more than 80 acres located near 12 Mile Road and M-37 for the school, which opened last fall.
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