Olympic Peninsula Academy’s new home has landed.

Sequim School District received six portables it purchased from the Central Kitsap School District to be used by Olympic Peninsula Academy (OPA) students when the Sequim Community School is demolished between late August and September and the district’s new Central Kitchen is built.

Sequim Schools Superintendent Gary Neal said the portables arrived July 14 and 15, and should be ready by the time school starts in the fall.

There are five double-classroom portables that will be used for classroom space and one single-classroom portable that will be used as an office.

“The biggest goal was trying to keep the group (OPA) together as much as possible,” Neal said.

“Now we just need to get everything up and running in September.”

The portables were placed near Fir Street across from Sequim High’s tennis courts and next to the high school’s choir and band room and on the corner of Alder Street across from the Sequim Community School.

Neal said the portables have been placed in the spots they most likely will remain.

The Sequim Community School’s rennovation is slated for late August or early September.

Neal said the sites where the portables will go have been surveyed and marked and will be up to codes and regulations before they are put together.

He also said there will be ADA-compliant ramps put in for each portable and permits from the City of Sequim are pending.

In June, Neal said it cost $800 total to buy eight portables with an estimated moving cost of $140,000. The other two portables still need to be moved over from Central Kitsap to Helen Haller and Greywolf Elementary Schools, and Neal said because of the moving company’s schedules a date has not been set to move the two remaining portables yet.

The other two portables will be moved over as soon as possible, Neal said.

“It’s been a daily project,” he said.

“We’re not penciled in for a particular date but we’re penciled in.”

The six portables for OPA are covered under the district’s capital project levy but the other two portables are not and the money to purchase and move those will come out of the district’s general fund.

“We had a contingency plan for OPA knowing they were going to be out of their building and that was part of the capital project levy,” Neal said.

“In our original planning, we had money set aside to accommodate OPA until they get something very permanent.”

Neal said the portables for OPA are meant to be temporary housing for the school program and the district will go back to the community in the future to see what it will or will not approve for permanent housing. A bond or a levy to permanently house OPA could be on the table on the future.

“To be on time and on budget is what we owe the community,” Neal said.

“We want to allow the community to be with the practice of having the community listening sessions.”