4/1/2007 - OUR SCHOOLS: A Lifetime of Serving Students
OUR SCHOOLS
A Lifetime of Serving Students
With a half-century of service in public education in Redlands,
Barbara Phelps was honored by the community with the dedication of the new Barbara Phelps County High School.
The high school, which is located at 1712 W. Park Ave., is named for the longtime Redlands Unified School District educator who has served as a teacher, administrator, board member and pioneer for early childhood education. The high school is the fifth permanent school facility to be built by the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools (SBCSS). The County Schools office provides direct education programs for alternative education, special education and state preschool students.
Phelps County High School provides educational services to community day school students, junior and senior high school students with special needs and Early
Start preschoolers.
Were honored to have someone as dedicated to public education as Barbara Phelps is to be the namesake for our school, County Superintendent Herbert Fischer said. She pioneered early childhood education in our county, and she remains an active and vibrant advocate for public education and students countywide.
Phelps said she is humbled by the honor of having a school named after her. Im so appreciative of the distinction of being the namesake for Barbara Phelps County High School, she said.
Phelps County High School, built at a cost of $5.6 million, sits on a 4.2-acre site. The site, which has 15,670 square feet of classroom space, said Principal Bernadine Hollingsworth. The school currently has between seventy to eighty students enrolled in its program. Class size is usually around twenty-five students with two teachers per classroom.
This facility is unique because of the variety of students who are served on our campus from community day school students to those who are handicapped to our tiny Early Start students, Hollingsworth said.
Phelps, who has served on the School Board in the Redlands District since 1987, was a teacher and administrator for 30 years. She still serves as a student teacher supervisor for the University of Redlands and California State University, San Bernardino.
In 1999, she was honored with the Distinguished Service Award for those who have given exemplary service to public education in San Bernardino County. She is a graduate of Redlands High School and earned her bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Redlands.
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