El Segundo Unified School District officials reported July 8 that most Measure ES bond projects are finished, two campus upgrades remain and the district will become eligible for additional state modernization and new-construction funding beginning in November 2026.

In a facilities update, Kim Linz, El Segundo Unified facilities staff, told the board the district started Measure ES with $92,000,000, has spent “a little over $77,000,000,” holds commitments of just over $11,500,000 and currently has a balance of “just over $3,000,000” remaining in the bond fund. Linz said the district will become eligible for “just under $16,000,000 in additional funding at the school sites” in November 2026 and listed further eligibility in 2027 and 2030, with a total of “just over 18 million dollars by 2030.”

Linz reviewed completed work at each campus: safety upgrades and athletics improvements at El Segundo High School, a new band and CBI building, modernized library space; safety and classroom modernizations at El Segundo Middle School and Uskanda Middle School (including stormwater and sewer repairs and a new middle-school gym); and campus-wide upgrades at Center Street and Richmond Street schools, including new windows, a six-classroom building at Richmond Street, shade structures and safer drop-off areas.

She identified the two remaining projects: Eagle’s Nest Arena district office modernization — described as not having been updated in more than 50 years — where phase 1 (ADA access) is complete and phase 2 work (HVAC, windows, lighting, flooring, ceilings, furnishings) is underway; and an HVAC upgrade for the El Segundo High School Performing Arts Center to add air conditioning and improve heating.

Board members applauded the scope of the work and emphasized that many repairs (for example, sewer and stormwater fixes) are less visible but important to students and staff. No formal action was required on the update.

District officials said the additional state funding eligibility will be applied to school-site modernization and new construction when it becomes available; specifics of which projects would use those funds were not decided at the meeting.