Design
The school is a 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m2) comprehensive high school located on a 57-acre (230,000 m2) sloping site. Designed to house 2,500 students but currently housing about 2,400 students, the school includes administration facilities, media center, theater and performing arts facility, multi-purpose facility, gymnasium, fine arts building and specialized educational classrooms. Site improvements include a pool facility, track and football field, tennis courts, basketball courts, and baseball and softball fields.
An element in the design was a focus on the media center and its application of technology. A path that circles the media center leads visitors to all the major facilities. Concrete masonry, exposed structural steel, glass and metal roofs make up the majority of the building exteriors.
The school cost US$35,000,000 (41 million 1995) to build and was completed in September, 1997. The roof of the Media Center Library was designed to look like an opened book. The performing arts building was designed to look like a piano, complete with black and white tiles on the floor in the piano lab. The Performing Arts Theater is named in honor of Harry Blackstone Jr., a stage magician who lived in Redlands.
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