The plan honors the campus’s historic Bahamian-style architecture while addressing many of the school’s functional and pedagogical needs. It reduces upper school classrooms by 10 – a feat accomplished by removing teachers’ desks and using the classrooms more efficiently. This space reduction reduces the extent of expensive new construction that’s needed.

Implementation began by transforming a standard classroom into a groundbreaking “next generation” space equipped with varied media and display capabilities and furniture on wheels that allow for quick reconfiguration into a variety of learning arrangements.

The first significant upper school project was the conversion of the library into a Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The existing library building was made into an “intellectual sandbox” that houses entrepreneurial spaces, robotics work rooms, a photo journalism work room, an auditorium, an IT genius bar and a media center.

Projects over subsequent years are a library, a school store and café, a new Learning Lab building, a new administration building that will be the portal into a main quadrangle, a new clock tower, two renovated classroom buildings and extensive site improvements such as upgraded parking and reconfigured roadways and paths.

Founded in 1961, Saint Andrew’s School is a nationally recognized PreK-12 day and boarding college preparatory school that serves students from over 40 countries.