Future students at the Highline School District's Aviation High School may attend classes at a new facility across from Tukwila's Museum of Flight.
Estimated cost of the new school is about $30 million, Superintendent John Welch told board members at a study session on Oct. 4.
Funds could come from the Port of Seattle and the Legislature.
Welch said the new facility, if built, would not be ready for students until 2008 or longer.
The school with an aviation-based curriculum is operated by Highline but draws students from throughout King County.
On the spring Washington Assessment of Student Learning tests, 98 percent of Aviation students met state standards in reading, 97 percent in writing, 89 percent in math and 71 percent in science.
Aviation High has drawn positive attention from several sources including a feature report on CBS TV's "Early Show."
Gov. Christine Gregoire and Museum of Flight director Bonnie Dunbar, a former astronaut, visited the school last month to unveil a state aerospace scholars program.
That program allows high school students to participate in hands-on engineering activities, tour aviation facilities, receive mentoring from astronauts and conduct a Mars exploration project.
Currently, Welch noted, the school's future location remains uncertain.
If Aviation High can't remain for a fourth year on the Duwamish campus of South Seattle Community College, it could be housed temporarily at the Olympic Junior High site in Des Moines, he said.
Mt. Rainier High students, now attending classes at Olympic, will return to their rebuilt school next fall.
Welch said remodeling details would have to be worked out with the city of Des Moines before Aviation students transferred to Olympic.
District officials also outlined location plans for other Highline programs.
Big Picture High, an internship-based school, is housed at Sunnydale but needs to find a permanent location, preferably on a college campus.
Early childhood and preschool programs for central and south end students will likely be placed at Valley View.
The current elementary school will be closed in June as part of a consolidation plan.
