{"id":150128,"date":"2026-01-26T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:11:12","slug":"anaheim-union-school-board-open-to-possible-repurposing-of-hope-school-campus-after-students-move-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150128\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Union school board open to possible repurposing of Hope School campus after students move \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Unified High School District board recently agreed to solicit redevelopment proposals for the Hope School site.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is the district\u2019s only dedicated special needs school; it opened in 1969 with a class of 52 students and seven teachers. The campus at 7901 Knott Avenue in Buena Park has grown to now house a junior high, senior high and an adult transition program that serves more than 200 students.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hope School in Buena Park, CA, on Monday, January 19,...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OCR-L-HOPESCHOOL-0120-JG-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hope School in Buena Park, CA, on Monday, January 19, 2026. The Anaheim Union High School District Board unanimously decided to open up the 18-acre Hope School property for project proposals and redevelopment. Discussions have focused on turning the site into employee housing, market-rate housing, health care facilities or something similar. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hope School in Buena Park, CA, on Monday, January 19,...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OCR-L-HOPESCHOOL-0120-JG-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OCR-L-HOPESCHOOL-0120-JG-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hope School in Buena Park, CA, on Monday, January 19, 2026. The Anaheim Union High School District Board unanimously decided to open up the 18-acre Hope School property for project proposals and redevelopment. Discussions have focused on turning the site into employee housing, market-rate housing, health care facilities or something similar. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hope School in Buena Park, CA, on Monday, January 19,...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OCR-L-HOPESCHOOL-0120-JG-03.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OCR-L-HOPESCHOOL-0120-JG-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hope School in Buena Park, CA, on Monday, January 19, 2026. The Anaheim Union High School District Board unanimously decided to open up the 18-acre Hope School property for project proposals and redevelopment. Discussions have focused on turning the site into employee housing, market-rate housing, health care facilities or something similar. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Hope School in Buena Park, CA, on Monday, January 19, 2026. The Anaheim Union High School District Board unanimously decided to open up the 18-acre Hope School property for project proposals and redevelopment. Discussions have focused on turning the site into employee housing, market-rate housing, health care facilities or something similar. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But \u201con or about the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year,\u201d district officials have decided Hope\u2019s students will relocate two miles down the street to receive their education at the previously vacated Orangeview Junior High School campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/08\/06\/anaheim-union-welcomes-students-to-new-school-combining-western-high-and-orangeview-junior-high\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The junior high was combined with Western High on that campus at the start of the school year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The board approved the relocation in 2023; the district has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/07\/19\/final-preparations-for-combining-orangeview-junior-high-with-western-high-forming-a-new-7-12-school\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facing long-term financial challenges and declining enrollment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trustees intend for the repurposing of the Hope School site to \u201cgenerate revenue for the district.\u201d Education code allows for districts to enter into joint occupancy agreements with public or private partners.<\/p>\n<p>Some potential redevelopment concepts district staff have evaluated for the 18-acre property include \u201cemployee housing, market rate housing, health care facilities, career technical education opportunities and magnet program uses,\u201d according to the resolution the <a href=\"https:\/\/auhsd.community.highbond.com\/document\/e33ee8c8-911f-45d8-8be1-17682c3bd1af\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">board unanimously approved on Jan. 15.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the board is eyeing particularly \u201cemployee housing, and revenue-generating health care facilities that provide students with career technical education opportunities,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAUHSD is excited about the opportunities this space can provide for students across the district,\u201d Board President Jessica Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to being creative and intentional as we explore options that may include connecting students to career technical education opportunities, supporting our staff through potential workforce housing, and other innovative uses,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the possibilities ahead!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A future date for when the board might consider any proposals that are received for a joint occupancy agreement has not been set.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1898, the Anaheim Union High School District spans 21 campuses to serve approximately 31,000 students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Anaheim Unified High School District board recently agreed to solicit redevelopment proposals for the Hope School site.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,179,15,1071,100,611,1997,136],"class_list":["post-150128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-community","tag-education","tag-local-government","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-schools","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}