Creekside Middle School is a campus planned as “schools with a school” following the California educational document Second to None. The design concept of the school was to create three educational villages each with a unique courtyard that the cohort of students could call home. Each village is comprised of three interdisciplinary groupings or houses of core classrooms, math, English, social sciences, and science, which are organized around a common work area. Common areas provide a central place to allow tutoring, project work and pull out programs to occur with visual supervision by each of the classrooms. The common areas also have protected courtyards to accommodate wet and messy projects.
The overall campus organization is comprised of three grade grouping villages each with a grade level courtyard and a grand quad which allows for multi-grade gatherings and performances in an amphitheater. Surrounding the grand quad are all the specialty elective labs and the “community” spaces of the gymnasium, library and administration.
J&M constructed site concrete including paving, wall, amphitheater seating, and steps.