Through a $100 million bond referendum, the Edwardsville School District was able to provide 21st century learning environments throughout its facilities—including the historic Lincoln Middle School, which received much-needed, future-focused updates.
Renovation features included a new secured entry and an updated bus drop-off and pick-up zone to ensure student safety. The facility also gained new gyms, a commons area, media center, and locker rooms.
The lower commons was linked to the upper dining commons through a learning stair divided into upper and lower portions, helping to create a separation between the two areas while still offering collaborative, alternative seating options for students.
Not only was the new footprint roughly 25% less square footage than before, but it also allowed for an overall reorganization of the campus—improving site circulation, administration, event access, student gathering spaces, and more.
Faced with barriers like an outdated building, lack of safety and security, and classroom issues, Lincoln MS was in need of help to enhance the educational environment and functionality of their building.
BLDD replaced approximately 110,000 s.f. of antiquated and inefficient square footage with roughly 60,000 s.f. of new state of the art learning environments.
- Renovation
- Additions
- Media Center
- Secured Entry
Unsure of whether to remodel their historic middle school, build new on the existing site near their current high school, or build new on a different site, the Maroa-Forsyth School District reached out to get community input via BLDD's community engagement process.
Faced with outdated and inflexible learning environments, unused spaces, chaotic drop off and pick up, and no central gathering area, doing nothing was not an option for the Jacksonville School District. Not only is the junior high experience a pivotal time in a child’s life, but of all the district facilities, the junior high was positioned to serve every student in the district.
The Prairie Central PK-4 Elementary school is an opportunity to unify elementary programming under one roof for the first time in district history. Not only will it mark a new location for educational programming in the district, it also will be planned to allow for future programming needs, including expansion to a PK-5 or PK-8 school in the distant future. The building is designed to support roughly 800 students with five smaller flexible environments or zones within the space.