PRINCIPAL PRIORITIES

1. Gym and Performing Arts Center (modernize existing Gym and athletics spaces / new performing arts center that can serve athletics and assemblies)
2. Stadium accessibility (new press box, restrooms, visitor storage and bleachers, site perimeter lighting)
3. Improved campus access (walkways, lighting, signage, etc for safe arrival of students, staff, and community)

SITE USE AND FUNCTIONALITY

General Education Classrooms

• Generally, classrooms have a teaching wall, traditional furniture, and a projector with pull-down screen.
• The principal reported the classrooms to function well, but would like furniture that supports a flexible environment.  There is also an abundance of casework in many rooms; removal of this casework could create a more open environment.

Special Education Classrooms

• SDC classes occupy spaces within Building A where they have access to a quiet room, offices, laundry facilities, and life skills facilities.  Classes also utilize the patio area adjacent to the building.

Student Services / Counseling

• There is a counseling and wellness suite to the rear of the Administration building.  The Wellness Center has open shelving and varied seating types including a large group table with chairs and a cluster of soft seating options. The group table and chairs are on casters and can be moved to the side so the room may be used for activities such as yoga.
• The principal would like to expand the Wellness Center so that more students can access it at any given time.

Staff and Administrative Spaces

• The entry to the Administration front office is within the perimeter gates, meaning it is not a secured, single point of entry onto the campus. The interior has an open office layout with private offices along the perimeter.
• Small staff areas are scattered across campus without a larger, central staff space to unify teachers.

Kitchen / Cafeteria / Food Service

• The kitchen and serving area sit at the southern edge of the Quad.  The kitchen is very small and has limited equipment.
• The serving area has two food cart lanes.
• Students dine throughout the Quad space.  There are fabric shade sails that cover a limited number of tables. Additional shade throughout the quad is desired.
• Students also dine between buildings H and I, which is partially covered.

Student Assembly

• The site utilizes the Gym and MPR for assemblies.  The MPR has a stage and rigged lighting with three (3) projectors for presentation.
• The principal notes that the gym will be receiving acoustical treatments and improvements to the sound system.  The MPR functions well but could use a modernization to improve its function.
• The principal also notes the desire for a Student Union-type of space for informal student gathering and activities.

Library

• The Library sits at the center of the campus.  It is a large space and has various sections of use.  Past the circulation desk is an area of seating at round and chairs, soft seating is also available. Long, rectangular tables where students can plug in their device is beyond.  Printers are available at these tables.  Past that are rows of low, immobile book stacks with tall book stacks at the perimeter and an area of tall, bistro tables and chairs.  Students can also access small study rooms.  There is a sunken area to the side of the entry where additional rows of book stacks are available.
• The principal is pleased with the size of the space and would like to see the sunken area re-purposed into a creative space that is acoustically separated from the Library with an operable glass wall.

Physical Education / Athletics Buildings

• Small Gym: Located behind the Locker Rooms, this is a practice gym with one full-size basketball court and two cross courts.  There are no bleachers within this space.
• Main Gym: Located at the terminus of the Quad, this is a competition gym with retractable, wooden bleacher seating on the long edges.  The wrestling room is at the back of the Gym.

• Locker Rooms: The Boys and Girls Locker Rooms sit between the two Gyms. This building also contains a Trainers room that has been converted into a space for Sports Medicine.  The Weight Room is located between the Boys and Girls Locker Rooms and is undersized for regular PE class sizes.
• The principal expresses the desire to add air conditioning to athletics buildings (Main Gym, Locker Rooms, Wrestling and Weight Rooms) and to increase the size of PE class spaces like the Weight Room.  A PE class is also utilizing a portable classroom and need permanent space.

Outdoor Athletics / Playfields / Hardcourts

• Grass fields have recently been improved.
• Due to the grading of the site, the fields are tiered levels at a lower grade than the main campus.  All sports fields require improved path of travel and lighting in addition to renovation or replacement of athletic elements like backstops, the press box, and restrooms.

Specialized Elective Spaces

• Band and Choir are located with the MPR with the exception of the music room located in the two-story Building D.  The walls are lined with instrument shelving and lockable cubbies.  A large, organized instrument storage room is needed.
• Drama utilizes a general education classroom in the two-story Building D.  The room has minimal casework and a low platform stage along one wall.  Student furniture includes individual desks with attached chairs.
• The Culinary Arts / Home Economics classroom is within Building A.  They have high and low casework and counter space with cooking stations at the perimeter.  Technology includes a wall-mount LCD monitor.  The space is also equipped with shared laundry facilities and a pantry/storage room.  Furniture includes large metal student tables on casters and stools in the lecture area.  The school garden sits outside the walls of the Culinary classroom, however it is not directly accessible from the classroom. The site would like a more direct connection between these two areas.
• Biomedical CTE pathway classes are primarily housed in Buildings I and J along with Science.  The rooms observed have separate lab and lecture areas.  The lecture area is comprised of individual student desks with attached chairs.  The lab area has U-shaped stations with sinks and gas. Technology includes a mobile projector and drop-down screen at the teaching wall as well as a wall-mount television.  Expansion of this building is currently under construction.
• Computer Science and Engineering are also housed in Building I.  The classroom observed has minimal caseworks.  Student furniture includes group tables accommodating groups of four (4).  Technology includes a ceiling-mount projector and drop-down screen as well as a mobile LCD monitor.
• The Art classroom used for Ceramics perimeter casework, multiple sinks, and kiln room.  An area of the room is organized with pottery wheels that receive power from overhead power outlets.  The larger area of the room is a lecture and work space where students sit in clusters of four (4) at wood-topped tables with lockers underneath.  These art tables are on casters and accompanied by stools.   Technology includes a wall-mount LCD monitor.

Restrooms

• The principal would like student and staff restroom improvements and/or expansion to occur site-wide.

Site / Parking / Drop-Off

• The drop-off lane at the front of campus has been reconfigured as part of a recent construction project.
• The parking area to the north of campus is used primarily for staff parking.  It is also utilized by small buses and taxis for SDC students.  This parking lot could be redesigned to gain efficiency.  Both staff and SDC uses should be maintained.
• Student parking is available in the two (2) surface lots at the south end of the campus.  Site lighting is desired at the lot adjacent to the tennis courts.

Technology

• Classroom technology has been minimally upgraded to wall-mount or mobile LCD monitors.