Construction at Pella High School is at full steam ahead as students are out for summer break.

Superintendent Greg Ebeling says despite overall progress remaining on target for an end-of-August completion, two areas of concern remain in the building.

“The hallway that goes past our gym areas from the east side of the school to the middle of the school where the office is, that hallway is getting widened all the way through,” he says. “There’s some additional work that has to be done there because of some mechanical and electrical things that probably have to be moved that I think [crews] weren’t originally aware of.”

“Also, there’s a remodel in our old study hall, library area down on the west side of the building that also has to have some things figured out before it can be finished.”

Ebeling says if the areas aren’t finished by the time school starts, there will be some logistical issues to sort out before students return. The renovation of Pella High School is the last of major district-wide improvements approved in 2013.