Spokane-based Lydig Construction Inc. has been awarded a $25 million contract to modernize Cascade High School, in Leavenworth, says Lisa Shier, a project manager for Lydig.

The project will include demolishing and replacing the classroom and administrative section of the school and remodeling indoor athletic facilities, Shier says.

In addition to classrooms, the new 56,000-square-foot, two-story academic wing will include an art room, a library, and offices, she says.

It also will include a commons area in which students will be able to congregate and where lunches will be served, she says, adding that the commons will have a stage area for performing arts and assemblies.

Other work will include remodeling two existing gyms and locker-room facilities.

Lydig has begun site work for the project, which is scheduled to be completed in August 2019, Shier says. 

Spokane-based NAC Architecture designed the project.

John Henri, construction liaison for Leavenworth’s Cascade School District, says the school will have more than 100,000 square feet of space, up from its current total square footage of about 95,000 square feet.

Cascade High School, which had a total enrollment of 387 in ninth through 12th grades as of April 1, was constructed in 1966 and remodeled in 1984.

“Our student population has been steady,” Henri says. “The reason for the classroom-wing replacement is the older building was antiquated.”

The project is one of three major school projects that will be funded through a $70 million bond measure approved by voters in 2015, Henri says. The other projects will be a new elementary school and an elementary school expansion.