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Each solution is unique to each district and we cannot say what your final solution will be, but we can assure you that you will have:
St. Stephen's Episcopal K-8 School located in downtown Harrisburg needed space for their expanding enrollment. This project placed a K-5 school in a former parking garage and unified the remaining buildings of the church campus. The photograph above shows the former exterior gap between buildings as an interior sky lit corridor connecting the cathedral (left in photo) to the 1800s parish house (right in photo) and the new school in the former garage (through rear door). This LEED™ Silver project had a construction value of $2.9 million.
The city of Reading was offered the property of the former St. Joseph's Hospital for use as a school facility. We were hired to perform the original risk analysis study and devise options for use. We have continued to work with the district as their architect on this project which involves some demolition, extensive re-grading for sports fields, a large core facilities addition and restoration of the 1800s façade and chapel. This future intermediate high school for grades 9 & 10 has a construction value of $61 million.
Educational planners first and foremost, our team has over 15 years experience in working with school districts to provide an extensive variety of educational planning services. Each day over 22,000 young people attend a school designed or renovated by the professionals on our team.
McKissick Associates specializes in facilitating community-based feasibility studies, working in committee settings and providing related public relations support. Our professionals are unrivaled experts at K-12 master plans. Since 1988, Vern McKissick has successfully led over 40 District Feasibility Planning Efforts in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and North Carolina.
In working with school districts through the years, we've gained an understanding of the individual needs of small communities and a variety of circumstances. We've summarized here, several common guidelines for good process and subsequently, a good architectural solution:
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