Junior High +
Field House

Gatesville ISD is asking voters to consider a plan to improve facilities, enhance safety, and support student programs.

Gatesville Junior High

What’s Proposed

  • Create well-equipped band, choir and theater rooms at the campus

  • Remove portables and add permanent classrooms

  • Upgrade and add student and staff restrooms

  • Renovate Clay Reeves Auditorium

  • Replace bleachers in old John Price Gymnasium and add storage

  • Construct a new corridor to connect the main junior high building to the Mary Bishop Gymnasium

  • Expand front parking and add new parking lot to serve JH and baseball

Additional Projects at Gatesville Intermediate:

  • Address roofing and HVAC at GIS

Core Spaces

Portables, Gym, Parking, and Restrooms

    • The GJHS building is 60 years old; core spaces like the restrooms, gym, and parking lot have identified deficiencies in safety, accessibility, and modern learning environments.

    • Portable buildings are outdated and less secure.

    • Parent drop-off queue and parking is insufficient for staff and visitors.

    • Restroom plumbing, quantities, and layouts are challenging on a daily basis.

    • Renovate core spaces — such as restrooms and gym — to reduce hazards, comply with accessibility requirements, and improve educational environments for hundreds of students each year.

    • Add permanent classrooms to the main building to replace portables.

    • Construct a new corridor to connect the main junior high building to the new gym.

    • Improve parking and traffic flow in the front of GJHS.

    • Add a large parking lot behind GJHS to serve the junior high and baseball field.

    • Intermediate School Infrastructure: Address roofing and HVAC

Fine Arts

Band, Choir, Theater Arts, and Auditorium

    • Students currently cross the street for Fine Arts classes, creating safety risks.

    • The auditorium is outdated to the point of safety risks, non-compliance with ADA, and poor acoustics.

    • Construct a new fine arts suite for band, theater arts, and choir within the junior high so students do not have to travel to the high school for classes.

    • Renovate auditorium for ADA compliance, new seating, and acoustics.

    • Build a band hall with specialized storage, percussion room, and acoustically treated finishes (200-275 students).

    • Build a choir room with practice rooms, risers, and tech upgrades (140 students).

    • Include a theater room to grow JH theater classes.

“We will prioritize a final design that is functional, not opulent. Nothing excessive.”

Superintendent Dr. Barrett Pollard

Field House & Athletics

What’s Proposed:

  • Build a new field house at the high school

  • Add locker rooms, laundry facilities, storage areas, and offices

  • Address deficiencies in accessibility, supervision, heating/cooling, and lighting

  • Reconfigure current baseball, track & soccer locker rooms for cheer & dance

  • Construct turf baseball and softball fields

Field House and Athletics

Boys’ Athletics, Baseball and Softball

    • The existing field house is inefficient, difficult to maintain, has accessibility issues, roof leaks, poor ventilation, low ceilings, and inadequate lighting.

    • Current field house supports all boys’ sports except basketball (~200 athletes) but lacks sufficient locker rooms, laundry, and storage.

    • Baseball and softball fields are not in line with competitors and subject to issues with rain and mud.

    • Build a new field house between the stadium and the high school.

    • Add separate locker rooms, laundry facilities, storage areas, and offices.

    • Address deficiencies in accessibility, supervision, heating/cooling, and lighting.

    • Reconfigure current baseball, track and soccer locker rooms for cheer & dance.

    • Install turf at baseball and softball fields.

    • Create a new large parking lot to serve the junior high, baseball field, and high school.