Beverly Hills High School graduates can now sign up to tour the campus they once walked, thanks to a new district initiative timed to the school's centennial year.

Board of Education President Judith Manouchehri, herself a BHHS graduate, launched "Back to Beverly" to bring alumni back to campus on select dates to see the recently completed facilities and reconnect with current students. The district plans to expand the program into career days, mentorship opportunities, classroom visits and other partnerships linking graduates with today's Normans.

"Back to Beverly is an opportunity for our alumni to come home, revisit those memories and see the extraordinary spaces that are now creating new memories for today's students," Manouchehri said in announcing the initiative.

The timing is deliberate. Beverly Hills High opened in 1927, making the 2026-27 school year its 100th. And the campus alumni will walk through looks nothing like the one many left behind. After years of bond-funded construction that once threatened to run $100 million over budget, the modernization came in roughly $5 million under budget, according to a BHUSD board report covered by the Beverly Hills Courier in April.

The restored K.L. Peters Auditorium and Salter Family Theatre reopened with updated sound, lighting and theatrical technology. For about a decade before that, school performances had to be held off campus. Six new tennis courts, a new softball field and new classroom and performance spaces in Buildings B3 and B4 are now in use. The Grand Lawn, a central gathering spot since the school's founding, reopened April 29 after a ceremony attended by Mayor Craig Corman, Vice Mayor Mary Wells and council members John Mirisch and Lester Friedman.

As we reported Aug. 17, the K.L. Peters Auditorium hosted its first freshman orientation on Aug. 5, with about 70 upperclassmen serving as Link Crew mentors. The auditorium is already proving its worth for current students; Back to Beverly aims to let graduates experience those same spaces.

Specific tour dates have not been announced. The district said alumni will be invited "on select dates" but has not published a calendar or sign-up details. Manouchehri, who filed for reelection to the board in the Nov. 3 election, has positioned the initiative alongside the broader campus transformation she has overseen as board president.

Still to come: the Konheim Athletic Building, expected to open by December with three basketball courts, expanded locker rooms and an outdoor regulation-size pool.