IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL LIGHT IN THE CLASSROOM

New elementary school in rural eastern Dallas County setting. Ample daylighting is provided throughout the school with a large light well over the central entry rotunda and long clerestory windows the entire length of each classroom wing. The building includes cafeteria, gymnasium with performance stage, clinic, library, 34 regular classrooms, plus classrooms for Music, Art, Spanish, Life Skills, Gifted and Talented, Computer Lab, Resource Content Mastery, and 2 Science Labs.

PROJECT SCOPE:

Size: 84,724 SF

Budget: $14,270,000

Completion Date: July 2012

Location: Sunnyvale, Texas

OWNER:

Sunnyvale Independent School District

CONTRACTOR:

Gallagher Construction

AWARDS:

2014 Outstanding Design Award, American School & University Magazine

"I recommend WRA Architects as being the very best I have worked with in all my forty years in the field of public education."

Mr. Kenneth McKay, Former Superintendent of Schools