Aha! It paid to read thru the thread before posting! This was my thought exactly. College libraries are already having a terrible time keeping up with the costs of licensing online products while trying to maintain a physical collection. I don't know how a high school is going to do it over the long haul.
The demand for online materials is growing, but it is a nasty habit. If you purchase the physical journal for the library, it's there practically forever. If you purchase a journal in Yr 1, but don't pay for it in Yr 2, you still have the Yr 1 issues sitting on the shelf. If you license access to the online version, once you stop paying the license, you no longer have access to the journal, even the years for which you previously paid.
I don't know what types of material this school will be accessing, but I bet they have to pay a fee for it and at some point, some hard choices are going to have to be made.
In California, the state is selecting which texts can be used. This is quite a departure.