The Costa Teguise High School "will be finished in October" and the students will have to start the course in La Villa

The Costa Teguise High School will be finished in October. At least that is what the Teguise City Council has announced, after the Councilor for Education, Lourdes Cabrera, obtained last week "the commitment" from the Government of the Canary Islands to finish these works. This educational infrastructure is a "historical demand" of the City Council, which cannot be launched as soon as the school year begins.

Therefore, as Cabrera explained to La Voz, the students who are going to study at the Costa Teguise High School are already enrolled in the La Villa High School, which will host a total of 900 students. Of these 900, around "160 or 180" will be transferred to the Costa Teguise High School when it is launched. "A Costa Teguise High School will be created virtually. Thus, when it is open, the students, the management team and the teachers will be transferred from La Villa," she explained.

Lourdes Cabrera has already visited the works of the center, accompanied by the councilor María del Mar Gopar, who held this Councilorship a few years ago, the Environment councilor, Isabel Martín Tenorio, and by the works management. The center is located on a plot of 5,400 square meters that was ceded by the City Council, which in turn is located on a municipal land of 15,000 square meters, in anticipation of future expansions.

Although this work is delayed, Cabrera has assured that the director of the work has informed her that "more than 75 percent of the project" is already finished. "I have also been told that the furniture has already been purchased," she indicated, while expressing confidence that the October date will be met to open the center.

Delays in the work

This project has gone through several difficulties since the first stone was laid on December 28, 2010. Thus, it was not until February 16 when the works began, which were paralyzed in March of this year due to an economic conflict between the Ministry of Education and the company, when the works should have already been completed.

In this sense, Lourdes Cabrera has explained that the obstacle was that the architect of the work had projected that the bathroom floor and the toilets were from Porcelanosa. "They have brought them from the peninsula because there is no supplier here. The conflict we may have is that if a toilet breaks, it may take three months for them to bring you a new one," she stated. The project has been drafted by the architect and technical director of the work, José Miguel Fuentes Marante.

With these obstacles resolved, Cabrera has announced that the City Council will allocate 400,000 euros to the execution of roads and accesses in the Costa Teguise High School, an initiative for which it already has funding. She has also recalled that the center was built near the Command of the Civil Guard of Costa Teguise, which will have a capacity for 480 students and that the project has been endowed with 4,774,082 euros of budget.

In addition to the classrooms, which are distributed on two floors, two outdoor sports courts have been built, a covered pavilion of almost 1,000 square meters that will have double use -municipal and school-, ten offices for the teachers of the center, a library, plastic classrooms, two music rooms, two computer rooms, two laboratories and various attached dependencies.