The project at New Berlin's Junior/Senior High School will provide modern facilities for all grade levels in the district to learn and grow. The additions and renovations aim to reorganize and enhance core educational spaces, creating a clear sense of place for both junior high and senior high school students. While different grade levels will have age-appropriate spaces, shared areas will be centrally located for easy access.
The project is slated to replace approximately 70,000 s.f. of outdated, poorly functioning spaces, with portions of the 1970’s building and J.B. Kirby Dome remaining. This design stemmed from the basic form of a double-loaded classroom corridor, exploded into a wedge shape to allow natural light and collaboration spaces to fit within.
Multi-purpose and multi-use were important themes in this addition. Large spaces like the commons, band, chorus, new gym, and career suite include flexible equipment allowing its occupants to rearrange the space to their needs for that year, week, or hour within the day.
In addition, student parking will be secluded on the eastern side of the building and with a direct path to the main secure entry.
- Renovation & Additions
- Collaboration Spaces
- Secured entry
- Re-organization of space
- Equitable Spaces for all grades
Over 70,000 s.f. of New Berlin's Junior/Senior High School was outdated and had poorly functioning spaces.
The additions and renovations will focus on reorganizing the spaces to create a clear sense of place, efficient student access, and smooth traffic flow to shared areas.
A new Elementary School has been built to replace the outdated, non-functional, and rigid elementary spaces previously housed at Lincoln (3-5) and Washington (PK-2). The unified PK-5 facility implements best-practice education design in an approximately 65,000 s.f. building, creating 15%-20% square footage efficiencies for the district.
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.
The new 81,500 s.f. Ellsworth Dansby Jr. Magnet School will house K8 students with environments that revolve around student-focused learning. Flexible and collaborative work spaces will be incorporated to engage students to work in small groups.