The reconstruction of El Cerrito High School will demolish 196,000 square feet of outdated facilities and construct 192,000 square feet to serve as the new educational environment for the school’s 1600 students. The administration, library, and community support programs are semi-public areas (they must be easily accessible to the public and central to the school as a whole). The design maximizes the natural topography of the site enabling direct ground level access to each of these public areas from the surrounding streets and parking lots. The classrooms are the most private and as such are recessed from the noise and distraction of the streets by a minimum distance set during master planning.  Completion Date 12/2008.