NEW BUILDING

The 2022-2023 school year has been a momentous year indeed. Our ateliers provided students with endless opportunities to facilitate their exploration and inquiry. In preschool, our students investigated the ways in which colors appear in the natural world through fruits and vegetables and how extracting these pigments can create beautiful shades. This level of curiosity was elevated in middle school as students in Grade 7 embarked on their Community Engagement Project, learning about community organizations in the Mission and how to support their work. Students volunteered with The Women’s Building and the San Francisco Marin Food Bank, packing over 15,000 lbs of food to be distributed.

As our inquirers continue to explore the world around them, we are tasked with creating an environment that reflects their commitment to this inquiry. The Embrace Campaign has an ambitious goal of $10 million to elevate our campus to meet the needs of our students. We are renovating San Carlos Hall and transforming our Mission campus to mirror our Reggio Emilia approach to education. La Scuola continues to grow and soon we will run out of space to house all of our amazing students, unique ateliers, and special programs. With the new building, we ensure our long-term sustainability not only physically, but financially with two full sections for every grade level.

The new space will also allow us the opportunity to further cement our existence as a center for professional development and thought exchange with educators from across the globe.

Additionally, our commitment to embracing the Mission community around us will deepen through our architecture of inclusion, as we invite our neighbors and local residents to share in and enjoy our new campus for special classes and events.

While our students are away for the summer, we will be busy! Renovations have begun at San Carlos Hall in the gymnasium, as we make cosmetic improvements and conduct a voluntary retrofitting of the building. We expect the space to be open to students by this Fall.

The Embrace Campaign, the first of its kind in La Scuola’s history, will transform our Mission campus. The project will be made possible by a combination of fundraising and financing; the faster we reach our fundraising goals, the sooner the new building will become a reality. With additional fundraising and financing, and based on the city’s timeline of providing entitlements, we expect to break ground in Winter 2023-2024.

Thank you for your support and partnership on this journey. As always, we welcome any opportunity to answer your questions, share updates, and hear your thoughts as we build the future of our school, together.