Spanish Fork's Sierra Bonita Elementary goes out for bidding

SPANISH FORK (Daily Herald)  -- With hopes of moving dirt by May, last week the Nebo School District started trolling for bids for the construction of an upcoming elementary school on Spanish Fork's east bench.

Set to open its doors in time for the 2011-12 school year, the newly christened Sierra Bonita Elementary will be the first of four schools on behalf of which the school district petitioned name suggestions from the public back in November.

Drawing from those suggestions on Wednesday, the Nebo School District board of education also settled on Black Hawk Elementary in Payson, and Salem Jr. High in Salem; Springville's future elementary school name is still up in the air, Nebo legal counsel Reed Park said.

Sierra Bonita, an 86,949-square-foot, kindergarten through sixth-grade school, will be located on a 12-acre site at approximately 1900 E. 100 South, Spanish Fork, although the school's boundaries have yet to be set.

"It will mostly serve the east bench," Nebo director of operations Steve Maughan said. "It will have to be a bus school. There are not presently enough students in the area to fill the school."

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