To support growing enrollment and improve academic outcomes, Beaumont USD embraced a K-8 education model for the new Summerwind School.
Our design for the new campus creates an upper 鈥淎cademic Campus鈥� and lower 鈥淎thletic Campus.鈥� The Administration Building anchors the Academic campus while classroom buildings, gym, and food service building form around a central park where students of all grade levels can come together. This 鈥淐entral Park鈥� is the green belt of the campus that separates the lower grade and the upper grade classroom buildings, and it also connects all the building structures together. This is a secured campus with a single-entry point from the Administration building to ensure safety. To improve flexible learning spaces, academic buildings feature a direct connection from classrooms and flex- labs into the collaboration areas. The storefront system between collaboration and courtyard brings in natural lighting and promotes transparency, providing a sense of supervision for these spaces as well. Inclusion is a state mandated requirement, but implementing it proved to be challenging. Summerwind Trails is the first campus within the district that offers close adjacency for special education(moderate/severe) programs to the rest of the classrooms. This model will serve as an incubator for other campuses.
