ALBANY
The Albany Unified School District (AUSD) will join with the community from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 14 to celebrate the grand opening of the new Ocean View Elementary School at 1000 Jackson St. in Albany for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, open house and self-guided tours. This new 60,000-square-foot facility is the largest of four major school expansion/modernization projects funded by Albany school bond Measures B and E. The new facility will dramatically enhance the campus experience for nearly 500 incoming students in August and replaces an outdated and seismically deficient facility that was originally built as Albany’s middle school.
This new school is part of the latest generation of AUSD school buildings designed to provide high-quality learning environments adapted for 21st-century educational standards, built in an environmentally friendly way, and designed through a highly…