Sifter

The Chico Unified School District hasn’t closed a school since 1989 (it was Oakdale, now the Fairview/CAL campus). In fact, it’s been building new schools. But an enrollment decline and a tight budget have gotten a School Board-appointed committee assigned with the task of recommending whether to close elementary schools, and if so, which ones. Here’s a list of when the existing schools were built and added on to.

School built added buildings added relocatables

Chapman 1953 1965, 1967 1986-89, 1994

Citrus 1937 1958, 1965 1997-98

Cohasset 1966 1991 none

Forest Ranch 1991 none none

Hooker Oak 1949 1957, 1967 1986, 1995, 1997

Jay Partridge 1958 1960, 1962, 1970 1986-87, 1989, 1997

John McManus 1947 1951, 1955, 1969-70 1987-1989, 1997-98

Loma Vista 1963 1974 none

Marigold 1961 1963, 1966 1987-1989, 1997, 2003

Neal Dow 1965 1966 1987

Nord 1951* 1988, 1991 —

Little Chico Creek 1991 1991 —

Parkview 1954 1965, 1967 1986, 1988, 1995, 1997, 2000

Emma Wilson 1993 1993, 1997-98 —

Rosedale 1953 1965 1985-86, 1988, 1997

Shasta† 1964 1968, 1972, 1977 1968, 1987-89, 1997-98, 2000-01

Sierra View 1954 1957, 1966 1988-99, 1998

* A school has been at the Nord site since 1890.

† A school was originally erected where Shasta stands in 1870.