Sto-Rox Elmentary School

McKees Rocks, PA, USA

Sto-Rox Elementary School is a 900 student Kindergarten to Grade 6 new school construction on 20 acre (8 Hectare) site in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. Due to the location of the new school in a residential area new traffic diagram and pattern was required to avoid congestion. Additionally, play areas needed to serve the school as well as the community and the school’s architectural character had to address local residential scale and expectations. The new school is a configuration of six academic houses that created neighborhoods for teaching wings. The classrooms were designed to share media facilities. The school also accommodated art, music and technology classrooms with facilities for a comprehensive PE program. The school also included cafeteria and administration spaces. AE7 partners were involved in this project as the designers, managers and directors of Burt Hill’s offices, and managed the Client and team on a daily basis.