Saugus Union elementary school students will soon enjoy the most state-of-the-art classroom technology California can offer, with recent upgrades slated to be rolled out next week.

The elementary school district’s Governing Board approved the $3 million purchase of the interactive flat-panels, or IFPs — which essentially operate as 84-inch, touch-screen computers, at its Aug. 16 board meeting. (One comparison offered was a giant iPad multiple students can work on at once, while the whole class watches.)

The move puts the Santa Clarita Valley’s west side on the map as the only one in the state to offer IFPs in every classroom, officials said.

“With the  interactive flat panel, we saw how the technology was being used,” said Mia Standley, an Ed Tech TOSA , “and after all the research that we did, we decided that this was the wave of the future.”

One of the goals of the purchase was to make sure each classroom had the latest technology, which will give the students an advantage in preparing for what they’ll see in high school, college and the work force, officials said.

“Right now, 65 percent of the jobs that children will be doing in the next 20 years haven’t even been created yet,” said Lee Morrell, spokesman for Saugus Union. “This kind of technology in the classroom allows for the running knowledge that will lead to the ability to do those jobs that haven’t even been created yet.”

The purchase was funded by Measure EE, a voter-approved $148 million bond measure that was passed in 2014.