Site plan for the new replacement school, which was built alongside the existing school while school was in session.

The floor plan for the 184,000 SF school includes grade level neighborhoods, commons, athletics and performing and fine arts facilities for 1,050 students.

Collaborative learning and hands-on discovery are prevalent throughout the first floor, with flexible group spaces throughout the classroom neigborhoods and commons and the connected Library and Maker Spaces, where projects can continue from one class to the next.

The second floor features a more collegiate feel to grow with the Girls as they prepare for college. The dedicated Senior Loft gives graduating students a secluded, but integrated space of their own.

The new Ann Richards School incorporates local, natural materials to match the feel of the single-family homes, multi-family, and office buildings in the surrounding neighborhood.

An expansive courtyard features native landscaping and provides respite and outdoor learning space for students under the shade of heritage oak trees.

Open collaboration areas in each learning neighborhood support individual and group study serving as extensions of classrooms.

Breakout rooms for group or independent study are sprinkled in the neighborhoods, each with unique and inspirational graphic wall-coverings with imagery reflecting community pride.

The multi-use common area includes adaptable zones filled with varied furniture to maximize square footage in space that flexes for dining, group work, study, presentations and school activities.

The library is a beautiful intersection of study and fun, incorporating a spiral slide from the open second floor study area and a learning stair.

Neighborhood classrooms have window walls which open to the common area and moveable partitions between classes to expand and flex for varied size group instruction.

Sterling Stevens

Sterling Stevens

Sterling Stevens