NEWPORT BEACH

The total cost to repair and modernize crumbling classrooms in the district will be about $127 million, the school district’s facilities consultant said. “A little alarming” is the way the situation was described by consultant Fred Good. For the last six months, Good and a team of school consultants studied the condition of the district’s 27 schools. The costs for repairs varied from $2.1 million at Rea Elementary School to $18.8 million at Newport Harbor High School. The repairs to school buildings will benefit generations of children, but not without a price. The $127-million price tag averages out to roughly $6,040 for each of the district’s approximately 21,000 students. The “most pressing needs” are to replace electrical, sewage and drainage systems at most schools, Good said.