Bedford Area High School

Bedford Area School District

Additions & Alterations

This 950 student High School houses grades 9 - 12 and encompasses 154,000 SF. Forming a partnership between the school district, vo-tech schools, employers, community groups and local colleges and universities allowed the school to create a School-to-Work high school philosophy. The areas of emphasis include the following: Engineering and Art, Business and Computers, Liberal Arts and Humanities and Human Services.

Powerful new teaching tools required similarly intelligent rethinking of Bedford's facilities. As the Partner-in-Charge, Vern McKissick helped to successfully transform Bedford's historic 1932 High School into a modern school facility capable of supporting the District's vision.

Months of interaction with school faculty and members of the school's administration resulted in the complete reorganiztion of the wings to house the four career paths. Wood and metal shops were replaced with the Engineering and Applied Physics labs. Other science labs were then overhauled and expanded. A Family Living/Child Care Suite was created from the former vocational and agricultural shop.

The science classrooms are configured with both a traditional teaching area and a laboratory space.