It’s official: Everett High will be building five more floors, bringing the school to a total of ten floors. This decision, made by mayor of Everett Robert Van Campen, was made to accommodate the school’s growing population, build more classrooms, and create more jobs.
These extra five floors will, of course, include classrooms, but there will be other new additions. Some will be duplicates of other rooms, such as a cafeteria, nurse’s office, and guidance while others will be completely new ideas, such as a beauty room, a napping room, an arcade, and an observation deck from the roof.
“We are excited to work with mayor Van Campen to finally address the overcrowding issue at Everett High,” principal Dr. Braga said. “We’re also open to suggestions as to what new rooms we could add to these extra five floors. In these next few weeks, I will send surveys for students to voice their opinions.”
Obviously, there will be problems to address when it comes to adding five more floors to the building. At a private meeting to discuss the added floors, the guidance counselors presented a statistic at the meeting, which found 98 percent of Everett High students are afraid of heights, the source for the statistic being “trust me bro.”
“I’m just glad I’m graduating this year,” one senior said. “I’d pass out if I had to go from the first floor to the tenth.”
“I really hope my teachers don’t expect me to go up over five floors in three minutes,” freshman Susana Prachi said.
The timeline for this plan will span across five summers. Each summer, from 2026 to 2030, one new floor will be added to the school. School will be closed at this time, and all summer programs will take place at Old Everett High School.
This decision will obviously be an expensive one, so the school committee asks that Everett residents donate any recyclable materials, especially cardboard, to the school to help provide the materials needed to build the school.
