DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — Dublin City Schools says construction equipment will soon be on site at Scioto High School ahead of the groundbreaking for the school’s 60,000-square-foot expansion.

Superintendent John Marschhausen said during a Feb. 25 board of education meeting that equipment should start showing up at Scioto “within the next month or two.” The superintendent noted the board is hosting its second meeting in May at Scioto, coinciding with the addition’s groundbreaking ceremony on May 22.

Marschhausen’s update on the Scioto expansion came after the Dublin Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously on Feb. 20 to recommend approval of the final development plan for the addition. Watch a previous NBC4 report on Scioto High School in the video player above.

“I think this is a beautiful building, I think they are enhancing it, they’re adding all the little details that need to come with it,” said commission member Kathy Harter during the meeting. “Even though it may be similar to the other schools, each one has its own little uniqueness and I think you’re bringing that forward.”

The district’s application submitted earlier this year to the planning and zoning commission calls for the construction of a new two-story academic classroom wing and the expansion of an existing dining commons area. The addition aims to allow the district to shift 500-600 students to Scioto.

Marschhausen announced the expansion last August, after pausing a nonbinding agreement to buy Cardinal Health’s west campus headquarters. Since then, the district has formally withdrawn from the plan, which would’ve seen the building turned into a fourth Dublin high school.

Earlier in August, the planning and zoning commission signaled it was unsupportive of the zoning changes needed to repurpose Cardinal’s building. Dublin schools had entered into the purchase agreement in spring 2024, which allowed the district more than a year to determine if the building could be configured to serve as a school.

Scioto’s construction comes as the district is readying to redraw high school boundaries after the new elementary and middle school boundaries were announced in December. The superintendent has long said redistricting is needed given Jerome High School’s enrollment is disproportionally growing compared to Scioto and Coffman high schools.