A $115 million bond measure for a new high school in Roseville was passed Tuesday in an election involving only 12 voters.

Eleven of the 12 voters cast ballots in favor of the new high school. Only a dozen voters were eligible because they are the only ones who live in the westside neighborhood where the school will be built.

Rich Strickland, deputy superintendent of the Roseville Joint Union High School District, said the area doesn't have many voters because the first of some 25,000 homes expected in the Fiddyment Farm area are currently under construction. The development is expected to bring an additional 2,000 students high school students. Strickland said the district doesn't want to try to cram the children into Roseville's existing high schools which are already overcrowded.

Officials anticipate that a new high school will cost about $220 million. Strickland said holding the election Tuesday gave the district a head start on getting the money needed to build it. Construction is expected to begin in 2012.