KINGSTON — The North Kitsap School District has made an offer to buy a plot of land intended for a new north end high school.

Final details are still being worked out on the purchase of between 28 and 29 acres of property currently owned by My Girl Drive-In owner Bob Thompson. It is located east of Kingston Junior High and southwest of Gordon Elementary. It is also near Spectrum Community School and the district’s transportation center. The district offered $370,000 for the land.

Location is one of the attractive features of the land, said assistant superintendent of finances Terry Heindl: “We’ve tied together our three school sites and our transportation center … we think we’ll be able to do a lot of sharing,” he said.

Heindl said there is room on the acres for ballfields, including fields for baseball and football, and nearby wetlands so students can study environment science.

The central location is also ideal, he said, because the high school building, which will be built in about 2004, can also be utilized by Spectrum and Kingston Junior High students.

The land the district is trying to buy also includes a “pipe stem,” a piece along just off West Kingston road where a parking lot can be placed.

Instead of a parking lot abutting the school, Heindl said, there will probably be a walking path students can use to get from the parking lot to the main structure.

The district looked at “four or five,” other pieces of land, Heindl said, but the piece owned by Thompson, as well as the amount of buildable land on it, made it the most attractive.

The land the district plans to buy is also included in all current Urban Growth Area plans, Heindl said.

If further negotiations go smoothly, Heindl said, he could bring approval of the purchase to the school board as early as its December meeting.