St. Cloud district unveils $50 million plan to remodel Apollo High School, add storm shelter and CTE spaces

Apollo High School leaders and architects presented the board with detailed plans for what they described as a roughly $50,000,000 investment in the 55‑year‑old building, emphasizing flexible, future‑ready learning spaces intended to serve students for decades.

"It is our honor to be here today and this is a culmination of a lot of time and planning and work," Apollo Principal Justin Scalarude said at the start of the presentation, which the architects framed around keeping the learner at the center of decisions.

Architects from JLG outlined a multi‑part project that includes a new, more visible main entry and welcome center, infilling the existing courtyard to expand the commons, an activities entrance, and an addition to raise the canopy and provide warmer interior materials and natural daylight. The team proposed suspending and displaying the Apollo capsule in the new entry as a brand element and adding a monument sign and wayfinding on 4th Street NW to clarify vehicular and visitor circulation.

The site plan also calls for athletic reconfiguration: reorienting and upgrading fields (converting the existing junior varsity facilities to…