August 22, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

RHS, JWMS upgrades moving along


By BRIAN JOPEK
News Director

The Rhinelander school board at its meeting Monday received an update on the district’s $26 million upgrade to technical education and science classrooms at Rhinelander High School and James Williams Middle School.

The project, which is to be completed during the summer of 2026, was approved by voters in a referendum as part of the April 1 election. 

District administrator Eric Burke said there would be an opportunity for school board members to take a look at work on the science classrooms. 

“They’re not done yet but they will be soon because school’s starting in the next couple of weeks and those rooms will be ready,” he said. “If you get a chance to drive by the middle school and you see the entrance, that is nice to see, obviously, compared to what the entrance used to look like.”

Burke said the entrance, as a result of construction upgrades, “is more secure but it’s also definitely a striking entrance.”

“The classrooms that are being built on both sides of that ... one part’s the office and the other part is new (technical education) classrooms that are part of the middle school and fantastic,” Burke said.

He told the school board that prior to the Sept. 15 school board meeting there will be a 4 p.m. tour of the middle school project and at 5 p.m. a tour of what has been done to the high school to that point. 

After the meeting, Burke said the high school’s construction lab is expected to be done in November.

“So, we’ll be able to move into those rooms,” he said. “They’re gutting all the welding and all those other areas to re-do that. That’s the part that’s going to take us through to the summer.”

Brian Jopek may be reached via email at [email protected].


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