Campus Facility Planning

  • FIP Community Meetings Fyer

    Join Us!
    The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District would like to invite Santa Monica High School students, staff and parents to be a part of a major milestone in the evolution of phase three of the Samohi Campus Plan. A steel topping out ceremony is scheduled to take place at Samohi on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 3:45 p.m.

    FIP Community Meetings Fyer

    Join Us!
    The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) invites parents, staff, students, and community members to attend Santa Monica High School's Groundbreaking Ceremony. The event will be held on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022 at 3:45 p.m.

    FIP Community Meetings Fyer

    Join Us!
    The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) invites parents, staff, students and community members to participate in the planning of campus facilities. These in person community meetings and campus tours will be held at Lincoln Middle School and Roosevelt Elementary School. The meetings will include a tour of the existing facilities and a discussion of educational needs, historical resources, campus plans and the next proposed projects. Your input is needed as we improve the schools to support the learning of our current and future students. Click here for more information about the community meetings and tours.

     

    Draft Historic Resources Reports

    The Board of Education adopted the Historic Resources Policy (BP & AR 7113) at their February 9, 2021 meeting. They directed the review of the facility by historic resources consultants to determine potential historic resources. Attached are the historic resources reports prepared by the Architectural Resources Group and Historical Resources Group. These reports identify facilities that would potentially be considered eligible for listing under the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historical Resources, or City of Santa Monica Designated Historic Resources.

    John Adams Middle School
    Will Rogers Learning Community
    Franklin Elementary
    McKinley Elementary
    Grant Elementary
    Executive Summary of Historic Resources visit: https://bit.ly/FIP22HRRSUM.

    About Campus Assessments

    A rendering of what an outdoor study space could look like at Grant Elementary
    We are in Phase 5 (detailed below) of our Campus Assessment process which is looking at potential improvements to elementary and middle schools in Santa Monica. The process aligns the instructional programs and school facilities to support student learning and prepare students for further education and future jobs. Meetings to include the community in ideation and planning were held in spring and fall of 2020

    What is a campus assessment? It is a major step in planning changes to campuses and classrooms to align them with the district’s educational specifications, which were finalized in 2019. The district hired architects to assess nine Santa Monica elementary and middle school campuses. The assessments include taking a deep look into how our campuses currently operate, looking at how they match the ed specs; imagining a future campus that brings the site up to the goals of the ed specs and determining the first projects to be allocated funds from Measure SMS.

    The assessments are also guided by the district's sustainability plan.

    Here's how the assessment and planning cycle works:

    Phase 1: Architectural consultants were hired and began visiting campuses and documenting information such as current classroom space and how it aligns with future-projected needs.

    Phase 2: Based on what they found in Phase 1, architects created possible projects for each campus, ranging from new classroom buildings to outdoor learning gardens to on-site learning kitchens. These were presented to educators, staff and community members for feedback.

    Phase 3: Based on feedback and new information found during Phase 2, architects worked with district staff to refine their plans to include phasing, or a suggested order of projects (for instance, removing portables, relocating parking and then erecting a new classroom building). They also estimated costs for each possible project.

    Phase 4: In the fall of 2020, district staff and architects held more meetings with staff and educators and then once again with the community. 

    Phase 5: After ensuring alignment with educators and community input, district staff is working with the Santa Monica Facility District Advisory Committee to make project recommendations to the Board of Education, which would allocate Measure SMS funding and approve projects to move forward.

    Design would likely begin in January 2021 with construction scheduled to begin in 2022 and 2023 depending on the complexity, movement of the project through the Division of State Architects and ability to schedule the project.

    Planning and Design Final Reports

    Fall 2020 Presentations

    Taking recent community input into account regarding preserving and increasing open recreational space on campus, architectural teams have provided these options to the long-range campus plans. These options also depict how first projects can be achieved without restricting future decisions.

    Franklin Elementary School l Franklin Optional Masterplan Refinement 2021
    Roosevelt Elementary School l Roosevelt Optional Masterplan Refinement 2021

    Spring 2020 Presentations

     

    For Questions About Campus Assessments

    For Lincoln, Grant, Rogers, McKinley and Edison: email Michael Burke.

    For JAMS, John Muir/SMASH, Franklin and Roosevelt: email Barbara Chiavelli.