Raleigh County Schools says $12 million SBA award will fund Woodrow Wilson phase 3

A committee member on the Raleigh County Schools board announced at the district’s final 2025 meeting that the district received $12,000,000 from the School Building Authority toward the Woodrow Wilson project’s next phase.

The announcement said the district expects to combine the SBA award with roughly $15,000,000 in local matching funds to make the project about $27,000,000 in total. "We were awarded $12,000,000 to start our project at Woodrow Wilson," the committee member said. He added that the district planned immediate follow-up meetings with the project architect and hoped to submit required documents to the SBA in mid‑January.

Why it matters: the School Building Authority award advances construction or renovation for a consolidated high‑school campus the district is developing. District officials told the board the SBA and the State Department of Education must both review project materials before the district can proceed to bid; the timeline discussed anticipates a review window of a few weeks and potential bid solicitation in February.

District context and next steps: the board was told that district match funds would be applied alongside the SBA award and that architect meetings were scheduled to finalize conceptual plans. A district staffer said the architect, named in the meeting as Dave Ferguson with ZMM, would be on site for project work this week and possibly the following morning to finalize conceptualization.

No formal vote on funding was taken at the meeting; the update was presented as an informational report and planning milestone. Board members expressed congratulations and holiday wishes as the project moves into design and bidding phases.