ROSE HILL, Kan. (KSNW) -- In November 2024, Rose Hill voters passed a $20 million school bond. The district's superintendent says it was to fund much-needed improvements to the decades-old infrastructure. A year later, the improvements are coming to fruition, and school staff are counting the days to the first morning bell of the semester.

As summer break winds down, the inside of Rose Hill High looks like spring cleaning. School staff and faculty alike are cutting the grass, cleaning windows and finishing construction right down to the wire.

"Our teachers have said, 'I didn't even know I needed some of this stuff, but I needed it,'" Superintendent Chuck Lambert said.

The school district's roughly 600 high school students are returning to new facilities, including a new auditorium, comm

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