The district says the new Oak Heights is being constructed on the same campus as the existing school. It will have about 84,000 square feet of space and capacity for 620 students.
The existing facilities, built in 1967, "are functionally obsolete and past their useful life and lacking many of the affordances we expect to see to facilitate student learning," the district says
The school has been designed as a series of three separate buildings situated in the landscape deliberately spaced apart to allow the park-like site to run around and through it. Each building stretches lengthwise from east to west to optimize solar orientation.
Oak Heights is one of five schools in the Edmonds districts that are being replaced after voters approved a $700 million bond and levy package earlier this year.
Mike Kennedy has been writing about education forAmerican School & Universitysince 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.
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