Plans to build a second high school were suggested by the Administrative Committee on Facility Expansion. With approximately 2,600 students and more on the way, North Penn High School was facing tremendous growth in the student population, and finding a solution was necessary to control it. ![]() Citizens of Montgomery Township were concerned for the future of the community, and the school board was caught in the crossfire as elections were on the way. Discussions of plans for a second high school were circulating. Two organizations were going head to head in the community over the growth of the North Penn School District. In the mid-1990s, the North Penn community was at a crossroads. PART 1: THE DIVISION AND DEBATE OF 25 YEARS AGO As plans to build an additional 9th-grade center are in discussion, the time is now, more than ever, to turn back the clock to a period of time when the decision to build K-pod instead of a second high school was dominating headlines, and how looking at history can help determine the best path moving forward. That was Decemthe ceremony marked the groundbreaking of K-pod, a three-story addition to North Penn High School, but hidden beneath the soil lies a trove of history. Edward Bowes, along with other district officials and administrators, standing on what would be a construction site, thrust shovels into the soil. Just over twenty-five years ago, Superintendent Dr. ![]() That’s the way the wall crumbles: The façade of North Penn High School’s Kpod, now 25 years since its construction, is showing signs of decay as the NPSD eyes a major renovation to NPHS.
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