 In the late 1980s, the Madera Unified School District commissioned a new high school to be built, to take some of the weight off of Madera High School by easing up some of the overcrowding of the school.Construction started in 1990, but a limited budget forced an abrupt end in 1992.It was decided that the campus was not big enough to be counted as a separate stand-alone high school, and the site was eventually renamed Madera High School's "South Campus" (with the original school being given the new name "North Campus").