A story that appeared in last week’s Auburn reporter on the levy and bond package that will be presented to voters in February contained several errors.

Auburn High School was built as a new brick high school and opened in 1910 near the current location of West Auburn. It served as AHS until 1927 when a new AHS was built on East Main and G Street Northeast. The original 1910-built AHS served as a junior high from 1927 until 1949. The junior High (original AHS) was damaged by the 1949 earthquake, forcing junior high and high school students to double shift while the new AHS was being built in 1949 on 4th Street Northeast where the football field used to stand.

Later, a small addition was added to the original Auburn High that was salvageable, an annex portion of the school not damaged by the earthquake for a West Auburn Elementary School that eventually became an off-campus alternative school until the new West Auburn opened.

The 1927-built AHS was used to house junior high and an adult learning center — a precursor to GRCC —from 1950 until 1957, when Olympic Junior High opened.

The 1927 -1949 AHS was razed in 1980 to make a parking lot for the remodeled Auburn High and the building of the PAC.

Also, the combined cost of maintaining Auburn High School is $250,000 more a year than the other schools combined.