Hononegah High School - Budget cuts mean students at Hononegah High School will get to sleep a little later. The board of education has cut one class period out of the day.
Now co-ed students at the 8-12 grade Hononegah High School in Rockton, Illinois will have six periods instead of seven, and start class at 8:55am instead of 8:00am.
But nobody could accuse Hononegah High School of not being innovative when it comes to saving money.
When Hononegah High School was badly in need of elbowroom for its physical education classes and practice space for its sports teams, it decided to think, well, outside the box. In fact, there’s not really a box at all ... just an inflatable dome, the first in Illinois high-school history.
Hononegah High School student population shot up forty-nine percent from 1,157 pupils in 1991-1992 to 1,719 in 2000-2001 and is still growing. This student population explosion, combined with more rigid state regulations for physical education classes requiring more students to take P.E., had the school scrambling.
There was not the room to fit the scheduling of daily practices and activities. Some students had to wait until 10:00pm for a chance to exercise in the limited facilities. But with space at a premium, so was money in the Hononegah High School budget. There was simply not enough in the kitty for a traditional brick-and-mortar or steel structure costing in excess of $6m.
The alternative was a permanent, air-supported dome, which could provide twice as much space for about half the cost of the brick-and-mortar options.
Spanning 330 feet long and 180 feet wide and fifty feet high, the new Hononegah High School field house dome boasts 59,400 square feet (about 1.3 acres) of new indoor recreational space ... plenty for an eight-lane, 200-meter track and four full-size basketball/volleyball courts.
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