It’s a great place to gather and enables staff to supervise students better because of its visibility. Mica Mountain has a student union-type area that includes charging stations for devices. The collaboration worked especially well as the companies pooled subcontractors to help alleviate labor and materials shortage, Wood says. That typically takes two years.Ĭonstruction on Mica Mountain and the adjacent Vail Inclusive Preschool facility began in July 2019 with Core Construction and Concord General Contracting serving as co-contractors for the project. Wood says the district was working with an accelerated timetable and they were able to buy land from the state for the site in nine months. The planning committee also asked architects from Swaim Associates to survey high school students about what they liked-and disliked-about the schools they attended to assist in planning.ĭistrict voters approved a $61 million construction bond in November 2018. They split into 13 subcommittees that met throughout 2018 and reported back to the whole committee before concepts were adapted into plans. And making Mica Mountain unique required community involvement.ĭesign concepts were refined in Mica Mountain High School Planning Committee meetings involving as many as 150 people.
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While Wood had practical knowledge about education, he was still learning from architects and contractors about how to build schools. We build to our community needs.” Crucial community input “School districts with massive growth often find an approach and copy it,” Wood says. With both phases, the aim is to grow without being cookie cutter.
A potential second construction phase could expand capacity to 2,000 students. The new 190,000-square-foot high school would accommodate 1,200 students. The district began planning the $60 million Mica Mountain High School just after Wood became facilities director. In 2016, Copper Ridge Elementary School opened, alleviating overcrowding at nearby Sycamore Elementary School, which had an enrollment of 1,000 students and a capacity for 650. For instance, Wood was the inaugural principal at Esmond Station when its first wing opened in 2014 (the second wing opened in 2016). The growth has been significant in the past decade as Tucson grows, too. It began as a one-room schoolhouse and has since grown to 22 schools with about 15,000 students and 1,900 employees. Located in Tucson and Vail, an unincorporated suburb on the city’s southeastern boundary, the Vail Unified School District is approaching 120 years old. “I value everyone’s perspectives, needs and wants for facility and culture that they’re trying to present at our schools.” Distinctive growth “My approach to everything is team oriented,” Wood says. Plus, he would be able to continue building relationships with the public, staff, students, administrators, architects and contractors.
However, it was also Wood’s chance to guide new construction in a growing district from the perspective of an educator. “It was very enticing, but bittersweet because I just started creating a community in and of itself at Esmond Station, and it would be tough to leave,” Wood says. Jerry Wood | Director of Facilities | Vail School District
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