Sacramento Country Day School, currently located in the River Oaks neighborhood of Sacramento, is exploring moving their high school program to the site of the old Newton Booth school at 27th and V Street. The Newton Booth school last functioned as a school more than 30 years ago, and was most recently the offices for the Jones & Stokes environmental planning firm. Jones & Stokes moved out last year. Previous tenants reinforced the building to be earthquake-safe.
Country Day is a private, non-sectarian school: their website is here--
http://www.saccds.org/ . Their high school portion currently has about 140 students, and the Newton Booth building could feasibly handle a school of 300 or so students. They have signed a letter of intent to lease the property.
This could be very cool indeed: what better to go into a historic schoolhouse than a new school? It would also fill a need for better schools in the central city: there are already some small private elementary schools downtown.