Winchester Elementary School, Hemet
Project: Winchester Elementary School
Client: Hemet Unified School District
Location: Hemet
Size: 48,000 sf
Cost: $17M
Construction Method: Lease-leaseback
Completion: July 2021
We love mid-century architecture, and this revitalization project for Winchester Elementary school gave us a design cue from an existing 1950s building on the site. Hemet Unified School District collaborated with us on a total redo to a decades old campus. Our design features large north-facing windows, sloping roofs and high open ceilings for the new media center.
This school provides education for K-5 with a student to teacher ratio of 23 to one. The entire district covers 650 square miles, has 28 schools with 21,710 students enrolled.
The silver lining of working through COVID-19 was having a closed campus with full access to the school site. This saved the District money and time, and reduced our construction time from 18 to 10 months and didn’t require any phasing of work.
—Liz Zuloaga, Firm Associate
The revitalization includes: a new media center, library, classrooms, administration and modernization of six existing buildings. New HVAC, landscaping, irrigation and underground utilities polish off the design.
