Key needs of the school and proposed solutions

Key Need: More classrooms for a student population that is expected to grow in the coming years. Remove the need to take over other learning areas such as the art room to support additional grade level classrooms.

Solution: Four new classrooms to be added.  The current library space will be converted to classroom space.

Key Need:  More efficient entryway and hallways to allow students to travel the school between classes without being chaperoned.

Solution: A more efficient entryway will direct the flow of visitors, move the nurse’s suite from the back of the building to the front, and open the hallways and stairways to allow students to walk to their classes without needing to be chaperoned.

Key Need:  An undersized 60's wing stairwell is dangerous during emergency evacuations.  First responders are not able to ascend the stairwell when students or other emergency personnel are descending the stairs.  In the event other stairwells are not available, the existing stairwell could serve as egress for 16 classrooms on the second floor.   

Solution: Creation of a new stairwell between the two proposed classrooms behind the 60's wing which will replace the existing undersized stairwell.  

ARTICLE #2 - Addition

Visitors walk through 4 sets of doors and a stairway in order to step foot into the administration area.  This stairwell is not passable by the children unless chaperoned making it very inefficient to travel to the cafeteria and gym or between the 1st and 2nd floors. 

Distance between the entrance of the building to the Nurses Office.