A photo of the construction site Google Maps Work on Riverside, California's Hillcrest High School will be wrapping up this fall. It's a state of the art learning institution, with a robotics lab, digital smart boards, and fully wireless Internet. Unfortunately, the city can't afford to turn on the lights or allow any students to enroll.

According to the L.A. Times, the school has no set date to open, though it was designed to help absorb the overflow of students from other districts.

The students lined up to attend Hillcrest will be sent to La Sierra High School instead, a facility already at double-capacity with 3,400 kids.

Construction on Hillcrest began in 2007 with the sale of $196 million in bonds and was almost impossible to halt once the economy began to turn. The $3 million the closed school will save the state does not include the $1 million required to secure and maintain the campus.

Kenneth Young, Riverside's superintendent of schools, said his districts have lost more than $1 billion in combined state funding. His is not the only county to close schools, many districts across the state have been forced to close institutions open just a few years.

"I think we've bottomed out as far as the economy, but here's the thing: The state budget is still out of balance," Young said. "That's where the funding comes from … so that means things might not get better any time soon