Jurupa Unified continues to make significant progress in districtwide modernizations and updates, providing an innovative learning environment for students.
“If you’re a parent in the community, it’s fantastic to see your students arriving to these updated, safe, clean, and modernized sites,” said Robin Griffin, Director of Planning and Development. “For the surrounding community, even in the neighborhood, it’s really nice to live amongst a modernized school.”
Troth Street Elementary School and Jurupa Middle School
This year’s Troth Street Elementary transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students are the first group of students to enjoy a full school year in the newly-built kindergarten classroom wing.
The Troth Street project is nearly complete with the final phase of the school-wide modernization expected to be finished early next year.
In addition to the new office building, multipurpose room, and learning village that were completed last year, the school community is receiving full modernizations of its classroom wings, playgrounds, track and field, an outdoor lunch shelter, and a new library.
After three years, the Jurupa Middle School modernization project is substantially complete with minor additional touches needed. Students and staff now enjoy a new office and classroom building, improved parking lots, modernized permanent classrooms, and updated landscape and outdoor features.
Modernizations at Troth Street and Jurupa Middle School were made possible by Measure EE, a local bond passed by the Jurupa Valley and Eastvale community in 2014, and state school facility matching funds. These modernizations are the last projects under Measure EE
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The improvements, “greatly enhance the educational experience and daily experience of our students,” said Ms. Griffin.
The cost of Troth Street Elementary School construction will total approximately $33 million, and Jurupa Middle School’s construction will total approximately $30 million.
Pedley Elementary School
Construction of new transitional kindergarten/kindergarten classrooms also started at Pedley Elementary in June and is expected to be completed in early 2027.
The estimated $15 million construction project was funded by California’s Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten (TK), and Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program and state facility matching funds. The highly competitive grant allows school districts to offer and facilitate full-day TK/K programs like Jurupa Unified offers, Ms. Griffin said.
The project will provide seven new TK/kindergarten classrooms equipped with features typical of early childhood learning environments, and a new TK/kindergarten outdoor playground area. Pedley currently has only two classrooms built for a TK/ kindergarten program.
Districtwide Security Upgrades
Over the summer, various security improvements were installed or completed.
Security upgrades include:
- Full installation of districtwide exterior cameras
- Installation of BluePoint Rapid Emergency Response System -- pull stations designed to improve response times in the event of a police or medical emergency
“We are always looking to improve the security and safety of all our school sites,” Ms. Griffin said.
Measure V
The Jurupa Valley community voted to pass Measure V, the local bond in the November 2024 election, which allows Jurupa Unified to continue making facility improvements to school sites.
“(There’s) even more opportunities now to keep the momentum going and continue the school improvements throughout our school district,” said Ms. Griffin. “We are very excited to bring that to the community.”
JUSD uses the 2020 Facility Long-Range Facilities Master Plan as a planning tool to execute future modernization and school improvement projects.
“We have all those plans and needs presented for the community to see – completed in conjunction with parents, students, and surrounding community and staff input.” Ms. Griffin said.
The Measure V Citizens’ Oversight Committee reviews the district’s bond expenditures to ensure the district is spending bond dollars as promised and specified to the community.
“That helped us develop educational specifications and standards so we know what the community has said they would like to see at our school sites. We bring all of that (input) into the school improvements that we do.” Ms. Griffin said.
