Goals

high school, opening in Fall 2013 in San Mateo, to be built on a critical mass of Nueva-educated students.

• Provide a safe educational environment for Nueva students and staff by, among other efforts, improving circulation and parking on campus to better separate students and cars.

• Renovate or replace buildings on campus that have outlived their expected lifespan.

• Provide a range of improved classroom and educational settings that are flexible and able to accommodate a constantly evolving curriculum including specialized needs for science, technology, art, music and drama.

• Provide flexible multi-use spaces that will accommodate diverse programmatic offerings in order to relieve scheduling challenges that result from overlapping activities in the GCC.

• Support the middle-school physical education and athletic programs by providing an all-weather sports court for basketball, volleyball and other indoor recreation.

• Improve existing and provide additional multipurpose spaces to support the administration, maintenance and curriculum development and program delivery needs of the School, including improved administrative space, teacher work areas, technology rooms, meeting rooms, tutoring areas and admissions space.

• Supplement ballroom venue with a theater for music, drama, and school assemblies

Goal 2

Improve Nueva’s ability to advance educational reform

Nueva serves as a model in the local, regional, national and international educational community. Mission II, the School’s outreach program, is committed to improving the delivery of education to students beyond our campus. The additional enrollment and facilities will support programs, faculty, staff, facilities and finances to extend and enhance our current on-campus and off-campus outreach programs which currently include participating in and hosting conferences, teacher training institutes, and afterschool, weekend and summer educational programs for students.

Goal 3

Founded in 1967, the School has occupied its current location on the western peripher y of Town since 1971, prior to the development of many neighboring properties. As adjacent properties have been developed, the School has diligently communicated with neighboring residents and the Town to minimize its potential impact on the immediate neighborhood and community.

The School enjoys a very positive relationship with its neighbors. Nueva invites adjacent neighbors to walk on school trails after hours, and to attend several school and community events throughout the year.

Objectives

• Minimize potential impact on neighbors through sensitive site planning and adherence to development guidelines.

• Locate development on already-developed areas (approximately x acres) on the interior of the 33 acre site in order to minimize development and operational impact on the natural and surrounding environment.

• Where possible, continue to maintain an open space buffer and/or landscaped screen between School facilities and residential neighbors.

• Improve on-campus circulation and parking to minimize traffic impacts in the immediate and adjacent areas.

• Reduce car-student ratio by encouraging carpooling and use of bus system.

• Continue to invite neighbors to participate in the planning process and subsequent Plan implementation phases.

• Continue to uphold the School’s self-imposed use conditions and commitment to neighbors regarding community use of the sports field and weekend use of the Mansion and GCC.

Goal 4 Continue to serve the Hillsborough community

The Nueva School strives to adhere to high standards of environmental conservation and community awareness. The Town of Hillsborough benefits from such commitments on a number of levels, from preserving open space within the community and educating children in Hillsborough to extending the use of school fields and facilities to local sports organizations and emergency medical rescue services.

Objectives

• Sustain open space on campus by limiting development of School property and by concentrating development on already-impacted areas.

• Preserve the valuable natural characteristics of the site by limiting site grading, removal of trees and disturbance of the landscape.

• Continue to maintain and enhance the Mansion, a historical and architectural asset to the Community of Hillsborough.

• Continue to educate Hillsborough children. Hillsborough is home to 67 students of the regular school program, making Hillsborough the community with the largest representation at the Nueva School. Over 145 Nueva student, grandparent and alumni families reside in

HIllsborough. Beyond the regular school program, Nueva serves approximately 140 Hillsborough families who participate annually in Nueva’s afterschool, weekend and/or summer programs.

• Continue to serve as a learning center for the Hillsborough community, offering to community members a variety of classes, conferences and programs including after-school and weekend enrichment classes, the Common Ground Speaker Series, the Innovative Learning Conference, the STEM Fair and Math Circles.

• Continue to extend limited use of Nueva fields and facilities to the community.

Goal 5

Position Nueva as a leader and active role model

Nueva’s most recent facility improvement, the Hillside Learning Complex, earned a LEED Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. The Nueva School is the first K-8 educational institution to have achieved this award. The Nueva School seeks to continue and further its leadership in sustainability among academic institutions as well as within the local community.

Objectives

• Target LEED Certification for all new buildings

• Improve net energy and efficiency of existing facilities.

• Sustain the natural resources of the site through good stewardship.

• Integrate sustainability educational opportunities for students into new facilities.

• Demonstrate innovative solutions for energy and water conservation on campus.

• Provide environmental education facility to support a reconceptualized pre K-8 environmental education curriculum.