La Jolla Elementary School modernization progresses toward end of first phase

La Jolla Elementary School is nearing the end of the first of three phases of a site modernization begun earlier this year, with the entire project expected to be completed in 2024.

“We are touching everything,” said project director Keith Kauffman of Pasadena-based construction firm C.W. Driver Cos.

The $48 million project will upgrade the school’s existing permanent buildings and add a two-story administrative and classroom building, kindergarten classroom buildings, a lunch structure and an upper-field restroom building.