On May 3rd, The Royal Pride Foundation (RPF), which is a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting San Marcos High School held their annual gala Red, Blue & You at the Santa Barbara Hilton BeachFront Resort. At this event, the non-profit announced San Marcos High School’s Building Community Wellness Project.
The Building Community Wellness Project is a 2-phase plan that involves re-designing and transforming the current campus wellness center into a state-of-the-art facility that will serve as a hub for physical, emotional, and mental wellness on campus, and will also create a brand new “mini-campus” for the Health Careers Academy (HCA, allowing for significant enhancement and expansion of the highly successful program.
The project received a 1.5 Million dollar lead donation from the John C. Mithun Foundation. The gift was announced by Principal Dare Holdren on May 3 and is believed to be the single largest donation ever to the San Marcos High School Community.
The Building Community Wellness Project is projected to cost $11 million dollars, approximately half of which is coming from state bond money that must be spent on replacing portable classrooms with permanent ones (projected to have the project in the S-wing).
San Marcos is seeking to raise the rest of the needed funding through philanthropic donations and, with this lead gift, has raised nearly $2.5 million dollars towards the goal of $5.5 million.
Construction for the project is projected to begin in June 2025.
