The new ALAH High School project will be a drastic change for the growing district. With an all new High School building, the district will be able to expand and plan for the future. The space will have numerous flexible collaboration zones where students can work in groups or collaborate with other classrooms. Flexible furniture will be throughout the space, allowing for each classroom to have the capability to do all kinds of learning, whether that be individual or group projects.
A brand new gym will function as space for physical education classes as well as sports, with fold out bleachers to allow for community seating. Locker rooms and a weight room will allow athletes the space they need. Interiors will inspire school spirit, with school emblems, colors, and the district mascot throughout, allowing for a sense of belonging, a necessity for a district that has students from four different cities.
The administration spaces will be revamped, with new office and meeting spaces to accomodate staff, along with new flexible and modern choir, tech, science, and art spaces.
Expanding the junior high into a 5-8 facility, a 5th grade wing will be added to the junior high to accommodate growing enrollment, adding five highly functioning learning spaces and a new unit office. New lockers will be added to the 6th grade wing, which will also be the new home of the enhanced junior high weight room.
Following successful community engagement resulting in a $200 million bond referendum, Iowa City is poised to update City High School with an addition and renovation. The project includes a new gymnasium that will have two floors, seating up to 2,000 at athletic events on all four sides. Fans will pass through a new plaza area on their way to the gym entrance.
Built in 1924, South Side Elementary is the oldest elementary facility in the Champaign School District. The original facility was designed during a time when children would walk to and from school, and aside from technological upgrades, few changes had been made to modernize the building since its original construction.