New school under way for military-dependent students at Camp Pendleton

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON - The foundation has been poured for a new school that has been years in the making for the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District.

Work on the brand-new San Onofre School got underway even before the official groundbreaking ceremony in December, but an increase in activity over the past weeks has really shown a modern campus taking shape.

The new construction is going on adjacent to the existing school, which was built in 1974 to serve the Marine Corps base's families. A second phase was added three years later.

San O's students, known as the Panthers, wil...