The Need

After 40 Years: A Time to Rebuild

There have been almost no major renovations to the Buckley campus in more than 40 years, and the last new building--Disney Pavilion--was constructed nearly 30 years ago. As we looked to the immediate and distant future, we realized the physical limitations of our campus were becoming ever more challenging to overcome. While the serene Buckley campus remains the optimal location for our school, changes in education over the decades combined with incredible growth in our program, especially in the Middle and Upper School divisions, have created countless new demands on our facilities. Learning in upper divisions now calls for larger spaces for new approaches to teaching and for technology and laboratory equipment that didn't existing when our campus was built.

Larger classrooms are needed to support project based learning and enable students to work in small groups. When our campus was built in the late 60s, specialty classrooms were unheard of. Today, they are the norm and they have unique requirements. The integration of technology links students with outside resources and enables teachers to address many different learning styles. The modern classroom is designed to develop skills such as computer literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, team work, creativity, and innovation.