Lower School Campus Enhancement Project: Proposed June 2026-Dec. 2027

Areas Impacted

During the construction phase, the following areas and functions will be impacted:

• All our existing classrooms will remain in use throughout the construction process, and there will be construction fencing separating the work zone from the rest of the campus.
• Only part of the athletic field will be useable. This will require us to modify some P.E. and recess activities, and we might alter schedules a bit to stagger use of outdoor spaces. Towards the end of the project, the entire field will be replaced. We hope that this can be done during the second summer of construction, but we may be without a field altogether towards the end of next school year, or for the beginning of the one after it. For our interscholastic sports in grades 4 and 5, we will likely bus students to an off-site location.
• Only part of the grade 1-3 playground will be available during the construction period. We will utilize the grade 4-5 playground when available, as well as other spaces around campus for recess for the younger students.
• We will be removing the current library at the end of the coming school year. We should have use of it until the beginning of May, but there will be a period when the existing library will no longer be in use, and the new library will not yet be completed. We will continue to offer our library curriculum, and we will provide students access to books, but both will be somewhat constrained by space limitations for a few months.
• We will not have field parking for events for the duration of the construction project. This means that we will either rely on surface street parking, or shuttle service from a designated site, for large parent events, including performances, back-to-school nights, and community events. In addition to exploring alternative ways to manage parking and neighborhood traffic flow in the absence of field parking, we may move some of these events to other campuses.
• The entire back loading zone will be used for construction staging and will be unavailable for the duration of the year. We will likely implement a couple of measures to manage this, including but not limited to enhanced shuttle service from nearby locations; potentially requiring carpooling or use of shuttle service from a nearby drop-off site; utilizing St. Thomas Aquino and other surface streets for some drop-off and loading operations (perhaps for our buses so that we could use the bus circle for additional car queuing); and moving some after-school activities to our Boynton facility.