The replacement campus is a part of the 2018 bond and will cost $28.2 million, Community Impact Newspaper previously reported. The school will be located next to Alvin Junior High School, PBK Architects Principal Jeff Chapman said.
“We wanted to work with your staff with what works,” Chapman said. “[District staff said] we like the loud spaces on one side and the quiet spaces on the other. And so we worked with them on a pod concept for the actual classrooms and then in between those pods are shared spaces.”
The campus will feature 42 classrooms, most of them in a pod structure, a gym, cafeteria, space for food service all on the west side of the school, and the library on the east side of the structure, Chapman said during his presentation.
The school building will be two floors with the younger grades mostly set up on the first floor and the older students of the elementary school mainly located on the second floor, he added.
One of the concerns for the new elementary is that with right next to the junior high school, the traffic issues will increase, Chapman said, but PBK Architects is working with the city of Alvin to re-stripe Stapp Maxwell from a two-lane road with two bike lanes and change it to one pedestrian bike lane and three traffic lanes, he added.
Additionally, there are plans of only using West South Street as an exit route for buses, Chapman said.
The timeline for the school is for construction to begin on Oct. 10 and reach substantial completion in February 2024. The campus is expected to open in August 2024, Chapman said.
