Dublin School Rebuilds To Begin In 2020

DUBLIN, CA — Construction on the new Frederiksen and Murray Elementary School campuses will soon begin thanks to $105 million in bond measure funding, according to the Dublin Unified School District. The new buildings, which will be built on existing campus fields, are expected to be completed in August 2021.

Frederiksen and Murray Elementary Schools were built in 1967 and 1966, respectively. The district said it determined that rebuilding was cheaper than upgrading the existing buildings.

Plans for the new Frederiksen Elementary campus will include 32 classrooms and a multipurpose room on the eastern and southeastern part of the property. An administration building, a library, a fine art room, a STEM room and two special education classrooms will be built where existing administration and classrooms are located.

Groundbreaking is estimated to begin in the first few months of 2020 and the district aims to begin demolition in the fall of 2020, said spokesperson Chip Dehnert.

View artist renderings of the proposed $50 million campus here.

Plans for the Murray Elementary campus include a four-room kindergarten wing, and four classroom buildings of 28 classrooms, with space for speech therapy, counseling and more. The classroom buildings are scheduled to be built from June 2020 to January 2021 and six of those classrooms are scheduled to be occupied as soon as August 2020, according to the district.

Murray Elementary's administration building, multipurpose room, kitchen, science building, library, and amphitheater and quad area are scheduled to be built from January 2021 to June 2022.

Demolition of existing Murray Elementary buildings is expected to begin in the spring of 2022, according to the district.

Groundbreaking is estimated to begin in the spring of 2020. View artist renderings of the proposed $55 million campus here.

The new campuses would be large enough to accommodate the 900 students expected to enroll in each school by 2025, according to the district. The district does not expect any significant disruptions to normal school operations, Dehnert said.

Both projects will be funded by Measure H, which Dublin voters passed in 2016. The $283 million bond measure sought to expand schools to prevent overcrowding, upgrade aging classrooms, provide additional modern technologies, ensure classrooms meet fire and safety codes, and more.

The announcement of upcoming construction comes as the Dublin Unified School District Board of Trustees deadlocked this month in a 2-2 vote on whether to allocate $33 million to improvements at Dublin Elementary. As a result, the agenda item failed. The board also declined to vote on a new $290 million bond measure designed to fund updates/modernizations at older schools, complete a second comprehensive high school and construct a middle school at Dublin Crossing.

View a district Facebook post about the upcoming construction below: